CVE-2012-4501

critical
Published 2012-10-26 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://cloudstack.org/blog/185-cloudstack-configuration-vulnerability-discovered.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apachecloudstack-
citrixcloudstack-

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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