PT-2012-4663 · Openstack · Openstack Compute

Pádraig Brady · Published 2012-07-22 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2012-3361

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Compute (Nova) versions 2011.3 through 2012.2

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image. This is possible due to a flaw in the virt/disk/api.py module.

Recommendations For OpenStack Compute (Nova) versions 2011.3 through 2012.2, consider restricting access to the virt/disk/api.py module to minimize the risk of exploitation. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the virt/disk/api.py module until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3361

GHSA-CM54-3VVF-F5P8

PYSEC-2012-39

Affected Products

Openstack Compute

References · 20

• 🔥 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7 · Exploit
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083969.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3361 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2012-39 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-3361 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-cm54-3vvf-f5p8 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49763 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3361 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49802 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3361 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/openstack/nova · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nova/PYSEC-2012-39.yaml · Note