Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom and Essex

CVE-2012-3360 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

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.

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