MEDIUM

GHSA-cm54-3vvf-f5p8

OpenStack Nova Arbitrary file injection/corruption through directory traversal issues

Details

`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.

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Affected packages

PyPI / nova

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 12.0.0a0

Fix pip install --upgrade 'nova>=12.0.0a0'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3361 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7 [WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9 [WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531 [WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/nova [PACKAGE]
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nova/PYSEC-2012-39.yaml [WEB]
https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html [WEB]
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9268 [WEB]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1 [WEB]