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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2012-3360)

- Update to latest essex stable branch

    - Distinguish volume overlimit exceptions

    - Prohibit host file corruption through file injection       (CVE-2012-3360, CVE-2012-3361)

    - Support injecting new .ssh/authorized_keys files to       SELinux enabled guests

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Matthias Weckbecker discovered that, when using the OpenStack API to setup libvirt-based hypervisors, an authenticated user could inject files in arbitrary locations on the file system of the host running Nova. A remote attacker could use this to gain root privileges. This issue only affects Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-3360)

Padraig Brady discovered that an authenticated user could corrupt arbitrary files of the host running Nova. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2012-3361).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
434978	SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-m454-cm7h-rqhh)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
434978	SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-m454-cm7h-rqhh)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
60072	Fedora 17 : openstack-nova-2012.1.1-3.fc17 (2012-10420)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
59845	Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : nova vulnerabilities (USN-1497-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2012-3360

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