CVE-2012-3360

Advisory

Directory traversal vulnerability in virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1), when used over libvirt-based hypervisors, allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary files to the disk image via a .. (dot dot) in the path attribute of a file element.

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Resources

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49802
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49763
• https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3360