Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-4573

Title: Openstack Essex

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-4573.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Nov 11, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.84%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-4573: The v1 API in OpenStack Glance Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary non-protected images via an image deletion request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5482.

Impacted Vendors

openstack 3

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092192.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00002.html http://osvdb.org/87248 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/118733/Red-Hat-Security-Advisory-2012-1558-01.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1558.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51174 http://secunia.com/advisories/51234 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/09/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56437 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1626-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1626-2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1065187 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79895 https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/6ab0992e5472ae3f9bef0d2ced41030655d9d2bc https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/90bcdc5a89e350a358cf320a03f5afe99795f6f6 https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/efd7e75b1f419a52c7103c7840e24af8e5deb29d http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092192.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00002.html http://osvdb.org/87248 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/118733/Red-Hat-Security-Advisory-2012-1558-01.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1558.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51174 http://secunia.com/advisories/51234 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/09/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56437 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1626-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1626-2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1065187 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79895 https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/6ab0992e5472ae3f9bef0d2ced41030655d9d2bc https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/90bcdc5a89e350a358cf320a03f5afe99795f6f6 https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/efd7e75b1f419a52c7103c7840e24af8e5deb29d

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-2012-4573 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 11, 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.