CVE-2012-3447

mediumpriority · track · 21OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.019 · 80 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.93% (80th) EPSS

CVSS 4.9 · medium

Is it mine?

5 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) 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.

cvss

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

6.5

010

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

v2.04.9mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 4.9

v2.04.2mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimaryCWE-863US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
openstack folsomall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:folsom:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack nova= 2012.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI novaall versionsosvUSpkg:pypi/nova
PyPI nova< 12.0.0osvUSpkg:pypi/nova

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-xc4g-7vw8-924hArbitrary file overwrite in OpenStack Nova2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
`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.
PYSEC-2012-212012-08-20vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-08-20modified 2026-06-16

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references (25)

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