Path Traversal in OpenStack Essex

CVE-2012-3360

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.030 (86.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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