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nova — security advisory
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.
- Products
- nova
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2012.1~e1-4
- CVEs
- CVE-2011-4596
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4596
nova
Fixed versions: 2012.1~e1-4
nova
Fixed versions: 2012.1~e1-4
nova
Fixed versions: 2012.1~e1-4
Complete source record
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