CVE-2012-2101

Openstack Nova < 12.0.0a0 - Access Control

Title source: rule

Description

Openstack Compute (Nova) Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3 does not limit the number of security group rules, which allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to cause a denial of service (CPU and hard drive consumption) via a network request that triggers a large number of iptables rules.

References (12)

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/49034

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/49048

[Various Sources] http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1438-1

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.osvdb.org/81641

[Issue Tracking] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/969545

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75243

[Various Sources] https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg10268.html

[Patch] https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1f644d210557b1254f7c7b39424b09a45329ade7

[Patch] https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb

[Patch] https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a67db4586f70ed881d65e80035b2a25be195ce64

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079434.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079551.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0089

EPSS Percentile 75.2%

Classification

CWE

CWE-264

Status draft

Affected Products (4)

openstack/nova

openstack/nova

openstack/nova

pypi/nova < 12.0.0a0PyPI

Timeline

Published Jun 07, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026