CVE-2011-4596
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in OpenStack Nova before 2011.3.1, when the EC2 API and the S3/RegisterImage…
- Published
- Updated
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- redhat
Description
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in OpenStack Nova before 2011.3.1, when the EC2 API and the S3/RegisterImage image-registration method are enabled, allow remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted (1) tarball or (2) manifest.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 24 days later
· 24 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.0 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (5)
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ad3241929ea00569c74505ed002208ce360c667e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/894755 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [openstack] 20111213 [OSSA 2011-001] Path traversal issues registering malicious images using EC2 API (CVE-2011-4596) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/76363226bd8533256f7795bba358d7f4b8a6c9e6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/885167 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qr62-r9xc-r2gj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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