CVE-2012-3447

Severity

49%

Complexity

68%

Confidentiality

81%

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2012.1.x before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before Folsom-3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image that uses a symlink that is only readable by root. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-3361.

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2012.1.x before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before Folsom-3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image that uses a symlink that is only readable by root. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-3361.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

OpenStack

First reported 12 years ago

2012-08-20 18:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:31:00

Affected Software

OpenStack Folsom

OpenStack Nova 2012.1

2012.1

References

[oss-security] 20120807 [OSSA 2012-011] Compute node filesystem injection/corruption (CVE-2012-3447)

54869

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1031311

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845106

openstack-nova-code-execution(77539)

https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ce4b2e27be45a85b310237615c47eb53f37bb5f3

Exploit, Patch

https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d9577ce9f266166a297488445b5b0c93c1ddb368

Exploit, Patch

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/10953/

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