CVE-2012-4501
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (7.77%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 10.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 7.77% probability · 95th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- apache/cloudstack · citrix/cloudstack
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 7.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0062.html
- http://cloudstack.org/blog/185-cloudstack-configuration-vulnerability-discovered.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://markmail.org/thread/yfuxgymdqwg3kcg4
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0062.html
- http://cloudstack.org/blog/185-cloudstack-configuration-vulnerability-discovered.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://markmail.org/thread/yfuxgymdqwg3kcg4
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.