CVE-2012-5482 OpenStack Glance arbitrary deletion of non-protected images

What is CVE-2012-5482?

CVE-2012-5482 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in n/a, published on 11 Nov 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The v2 API in OpenStack Glance Grizzly, Folsom (2012.2), and Essex (2012.1) allows remote authenticated users to delete arbitrary non-protected images via an image deletion request. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-4573.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5482?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including glance. It affects 3 products.

Products include Openstack Essex, Openstack Folsom, Openstack Image Registry and Delivery Service \(Glance\).

How do I fix CVE-2012-5482?

Upgrade glance to 11.0.0a0 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2012-5482 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2013-0261 Packstack: packstack: arbitrary file overwrite via symlink attack High 8.8
• CVE-2013-0266 Information disclosure in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) Medium 5.5
• CVE-2012-4573 OpenStack Glance arbitrary deletion of non-protected images Medium 5.5
• CVE-2012-3360 OpenStack Nova Directory traversal vulnerability Medium 5.5
• CVE-2012-5571 Openstack keystone: openstack keystone: authorization bypass via improper ec2 token handling Medium 5.4

Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5482, GHSA-vwr9-9f8v-vp5m.