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USN-1545-1: Nova vulnerability

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USN-1545-1: Nova vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/20/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) 2012.1.x before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before Folsom-3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image that uses a symlink that is only readable by root. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-3361.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-nova

References

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