CVE-2012-3361

mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.026 · 85 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.60% (85th) EPSS

CVSS 5.5 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2), Essex (2012.1), and Diablo (2011.3) allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image.

cvss

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

5.5

010

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

v2.05.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 4.9

v2.04.7mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimary

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
openstack diablo= 2011.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:diablo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack essex= 2012.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:essex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack folsom= 2012.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:folsom:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI novaall versionsosvUSpkg:pypi/nova
PyPI nova< 12.0.0a0osvUSpkg:pypi/nova

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-cm54-3vvf-f5p8OpenStack Nova Arbitrary file injection/corruption through directory traversal issues2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
`virt/disk/api.py` in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2), Essex (2012.1), and Diablo (2011.3) allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image.
PYSEC-2012-392012-07-22vendor · osvUS
virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2), Essex (2012.1), and Diablo (2011.3) allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image.

also known as (5)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-07-22modified 2026-06-16

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references (32)

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