PT-2011-5002 · Openstack · Openstack Nova

David Black · Published 2011-12-23 · Updated 2022-05-14 · CVE-2011-4596

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Nova versions prior to 2011.3.1

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted tarball or manifest when the EC2 API and the S3/RegisterImage image-registration method are enabled.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2011.3.1, update to version 2011.3.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4596

GHSA-QR62-R9XC-R2GJ

Affected Products

Openstack Nova

References · 11

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4596 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-qr62-r9xc-r2gj · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ad3241929ea00569c74505ed002208ce360c667e · Note
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/76363226bd8533256f7795bba358d7f4b8a6c9e6 · Note
• https://github.com/openstack/nova · Note
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/894755 · Note
• https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06105.html · Note
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/885167 · Note