Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3361

Title: Openstack Essex

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3361.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Jul 22, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3361: 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.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 3

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083969.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49763 http://secunia.com/advisories/49802 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54278 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9 https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9268/ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083969.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49763 http://secunia.com/advisories/49802 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54278 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9 https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9268/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-3361 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 22, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.