CVE-2011-4596

mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.018 · 78 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.76% (78th) EPSS

CVSS 6 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in OpenStack Nova before 2011.3.1, when the EC2 API and the S3/RegisterImage image-registration method are enabled, allow remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted (1) tarball or (2) manifest.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 6.4

v2.05.1mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
openstack nova2011.3 → 2011.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI nova< 12.0.0a0osvUSpkg:pypi/nova

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-qr62-r9xc-r2gjOpenStack Nova Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in OpenStack Nova before 2011.3.1, when the EC2 API and the S3/RegisterImage image-registration method are enabled, allow remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted (1) tarball or (2) manifest.
PYSEC-2026-881OpenStack Nova Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities2026-07-06vendor · osvUS
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in OpenStack Nova before 2011.3.1, when the EC2 API and the S3/RegisterImage image-registration method are enabled, allow remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted (1) tarball or (2) manifest.

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2011-12-23modified 2026-06-16

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references (10)

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