Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-5482

Title: Openstack Essex

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-5482.

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)

1.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-5482: The v2 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-4573.

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://secunia.com/advisories/51174 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/08/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/09/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/09/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56437 https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1076506 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80019 https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/b591304b8980d8aca8fa6cda9ea1621aca000c88 https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/fc0ee7623ec59c87ac6fc671e95a9798d6f2e2c3 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://secunia.com/advisories/51174 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/08/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/09/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/09/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56437 https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1076506 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80019 https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/b591304b8980d8aca8fa6cda9ea1621aca000c88 https://github.com/openstack/glance/commit/fc0ee7623ec59c87ac6fc671e95a9798d6f2e2c3

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-2012-5482 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.