Vulnerability in Eucalyptus

CVE-2012-3240

The Walrus service in Eucalyptus 2.0.3 and 3.0.x before 3.0.2 allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges via a crafted REST request.

Published 2012-07-17 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.024 (83.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Eucalyptus — versions 2.0.3, 3.0.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

www.eucalyptus.com/eucalyptus-cloud/security/esa-03 (Vendor Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/49912 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/49916 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)