CVE-2012-4573

Essex vulnerability

CVSS

5.5

EPSS

3.3%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

The v1 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5482.

Affected vendor

Openstack

Affected product

Essex

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Published

2012-11-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-4573.
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