CVE-2012-2652 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2012-2652?

CVE-2012-2652 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Qemu Qemu, published on 7 Aug 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The bdrv_open function in Qemu 1.0 does not properly handle the failure of the mkstemp function, when in snapshot node, which allows local users to overwrite or read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-2652?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2012-2652?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2012-2652 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2652 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2652, GHSA-47rg-xchh-xj5g.