Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-5625

Title: Openstack Grizzly Information Disclosure

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-5625.

CWE Category CWE-200

Published Date Dec 26, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.01%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-5625: OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom before 2012.2.2 and Grizzly, when using libvirt and LVM backed instances, does not properly clear physical volume (PV) content when reallocating for instances, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the memory of the previous logical volume (LV).

Impacted Vendors

openstack 2

eclipse 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/88419 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/11/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56904 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1663-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1070539 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884293 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/9d2ea970422591f8cdc394001be9a2deca499a5f https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a99a802e008eed18e39fc1d98170edc495cbd354 https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2.2 http://osvdb.org/88419 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0208.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/11/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56904 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1663-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1070539 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884293 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/9d2ea970422591f8cdc394001be9a2deca499a5f https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a99a802e008eed18e39fc1d98170edc495cbd354 https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2.2

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-5625 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.

December 26, 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.