CVE-2012-4501

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Published Oct 26, 2012 CVSS 2.0 · 10.0 Critical EPSS 7.8% KEV · Not listed

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.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:apache:cloudstack:-:prerelease::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:citrix:cloudstack:-:::::::*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2012-4430	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.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 7.8% (7.771% probability within 30 days)

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References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Subscriptions

Apache Cloudstack

Citrix Cloudstack

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Sources

CVE record Updated: Sep 17, 2024, 12:41 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: Oct 26, 2012, 10:00 AM
Updated: Sep 17, 2024, 12:41 AM
Reserved: Aug 21, 2012, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 11:45 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Oct 26, 2012, 10:39 AM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 11:45 PM

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