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CVE-2012-3360 json

OpenStack Nova Directory traversal vulnerability

published 2012-07-22 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-m454-cm7h-rqhh , PYSEC-2012-38 , EUVD-2012-0021

cvss
5.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.1%
EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi nova 12.0.0a0
  • nova Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2012.1.1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3360

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-3360 updated cvss 6.0

OpenStack-Nova: compute nodes file injection in disk images

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi nova
<12.0.0a0
12.0.0a0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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