PYSEC-2012-38

Withdrawn 2024-11-22. This finding no longer applies and is kept for reference. It is not used when checking packages.

Quick fix

PYSEC-2012-38 — nova: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'nova>=b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9'

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI/nova

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9

Fixpip install --upgrade 'nova>=b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9'

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/49802[ADVISORY]
http://secunia.com/advisories/49763[ADVISORY]
https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html[WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9[EVIDENCE]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9[FIX]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7[FIX]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277[WEB]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1[ADVISORY]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m454-cm7h-rqhh[ADVISORY]