CVE-2012-3447
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…
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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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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 | Medium4.9 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (8)
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/ce4b2e27be45a85b310237615c47eb53f37bb5f3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120807 [OSSA 2012-011] Compute node filesystem injection/corruption (CVE-2012-3447) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 54869 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openstack-nova-code-execution(77539) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/10953/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1031311 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/d9577ce9f266166a297488445b5b0c93c1ddb368 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845106 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-xc4g-7vw8-924h (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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