CVE-2009-4261: Roman Marxer Ganeti

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the iallocator framework in Ganeti 1.2.4 through 1.2.8, 2.0.0 through 2.0.4, and 2.1.0 before 2.1.0~rc2 allow (1) remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a crafted external script name supplied through the HTTP remote API (RAPI) and allow (2) local users to execute arbitrary programs and gain privileges via a crafted external script name supplied through a gnt-* command, related to "path sanitization errors."

Affected products

• Roman Marxer Ganeti: version 1.2.4 only; version 1.2.5 only; version 1.2.6 only; version 1.2.7 only; version 1.2.8 only; version 2.0.0 only; …

Published 2009-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.