CVE-2012-5625 (GCVE-0-2012-5625)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-12-26 22:00
Modified
2026-10-30 18:03
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-212 - Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer
Summary
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom before 2012.2.2 and Grizzly, when using libvirt and LVM backed instances, does not properly clear physical volume (PV) content when reallocating for instances, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the memory of the previous logical volume (LV).
References
Impacted products
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| Red Hat | OpenStack Folsom for RHEL 6 |
Unaffected: 0:2012.2.2-8.el6ost < * cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:2::el6 |
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