CVE-2012-3447: Openstack Folsom

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Openstack Folsom: any version
• Openstack Nova: version 2012.1 only

Published 2012-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.