CVE-2012-4064

medium
Published 2012-10-01 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Eucalyptus before 3.1.1 does not properly restrict the binding of external SOAP web-services messages, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by sending a message to (1) Cloud Controller or (2) Walrus with the internal message format and a modified user id.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
eucalyptuseucalyptus{"endIncluding":"3.1.0"}
eucalyptuseucalyptus1.0
eucalyptuseucalyptus1.1
eucalyptuseucalyptus1.2
eucalyptuseucalyptus1.3
eucalyptuseucalyptus1.4
eucalyptuseucalyptus1.5.1
eucalyptuseucalyptus1.5.2
eucalyptuseucalyptus1.6
eucalyptuseucalyptus1.6.2
eucalyptuseucalyptus2.0
eucalyptuseucalyptus2.0.0
eucalyptuseucalyptus2.0.1
eucalyptuseucalyptus2.0.2
eucalyptuseucalyptus2.0.3
eucalyptuseucalyptus3.0
eucalyptuseucalyptus3.0.1
eucalyptuseucalyptus3.1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.