openstack/nova · Security
Arbitrary file overwrite in OpenStack Nova
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-xc4g-7vw8-924h
- CVE ID
- CVE-2012-3447
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 7.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
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.
CWEs
- CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3447 ↗
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ce4b2e27be45a85b310237615c47eb53f37bb5f3 ↗
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d9577ce9f266166a297488445b5b0c93c1ddb368 ↗
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1031311 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845106 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77539 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/07/1 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nova/PYSEC-2012-21.yaml ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120824003029/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54869 ↗
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/10953 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xc4g-7vw8-924h ↗