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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.
- Products
- nova
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2012.1.1-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-3360
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:56 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3360
nova
Fixed versions: 2012.1.1-2
nova
Fixed versions: 2012.1.1-2
nova
Fixed versions: 2012.1.1-2
Complete source record
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