CVE-2012-3360

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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.

Published: 2012-07-22 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-3360 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.00%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.62% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2012-3360

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-3360

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 1.38% 3.00% +1.62%
2 2026-03-23 2.56% 1.38% -1.18%
3 2025-03-30 2.56%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-3360

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.0 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-3360

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2012-3360

GHSA-m454-cm7h-rqhh · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: pip — OpenStack Nova Directory traversal vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-3360

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2012-3360 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (nova), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3360
ubuntu high CVE-2012-3360 high priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nova), 6 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise, upstream): DNE 2, not-affected 2, released 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-3360

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-3360

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
openstack essex 2012.1 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:essex:2012.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack folsom 2012.2 cpe:2.3:a:openstack:folsom:2012.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-3360

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