CVE-2012-3360: Openstack Essex

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1), when used over libvirt-based hypervisors, allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary files to the disk image via a .. (dot dot) in the path attribute of a file element.

Affected products

• Openstack Essex: version 2012.1 only
• Openstack Folsom: version 2012.2 only

Published 2012-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.