CVE-2012-3360 - Can do Mother

Description

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.

Reference

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1015531 http://secunia.com/advisories/49802 http://secunia.com/advisories/49763 https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b0feaffdb2b1c51182b8dce41b367f3449af5dd9 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/2427d4a99bed35baefd8f17ba422cb7aae8dcca7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54277 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1497-1 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083984.html