CVE-2012-4501
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
10.0
Description
Citrix Cloud.com CloudStack, and Apache CloudStack pre-release, allows remote attackers to make arbitrary API calls by leveraging the system user account, as demonstrated by API calls to delete VMs.
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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | cloudstack | - | |
| citrix | cloudstack | - | |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0062.html
- http://cloudstack.org/blog/185-cloudstack-configuration-vulnerability-discovered.html
- http://markmail.org/thread/yfuxgymdqwg3kcg4
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0062.html
- http://cloudstack.org/blog/185-cloudstack-configuration-vulnerability-discovered.html
- http://markmail.org/thread/yfuxgymdqwg3kcg4
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.