CVE-2012-5625: Openstack Folsom

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom before 2012.2.2 and Grizzly, when using libvirt and LVM backed instances, does not properly clear physical volume (PV) content when reallocating for instances, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the memory of the previous logical volume (LV).

Affected products

• Openstack Folsom: version 2012.2 only
• Openstack Grizzly: affected versions not specified

Published 2012-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.