VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2012-3360

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.02%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-07-22
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Primary references