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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-m454-cm7h-rqhh)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434978

Description

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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m454-cm7h-rqhh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434978

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3360

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3360

BID: 54277

cwe: CWE-22