Access Restriction Bypass Affecting nova package, versions <2012.1.1-2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.38% (73rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-NOVA-1555224
- published 22 Jul 2012
- disclosed 22 Jul 2012
Introduced: 22 Jul 2012
CVE-2012-3361 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12
nova
to version 2012.1.1-2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nova
package and not the nova
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:12
relevant fixed versions and status.
virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2), Essex (2012.1), and Diablo (2011.3) allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3361
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083969.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531
- https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html
- https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9268/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49763
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49802
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54278
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-3361
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1