CVE-2012-2101

Openstack Nova 2011.3, 2012.1, Folsom - Authenticated Denial of Service via Security Group Rule Flood

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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)

Core 12
Core References
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg10268.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/81641
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1438-1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75243
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079434.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079551.html
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/49048
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/969545
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/49034

Scores

EPSS 0.0089
EPSS Percentile 75.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (4)
openstack/nova 2011.3
openstack/nova 2012.1
openstack/nova folsom
pypi/nova 0 - 12.0.0a0PyPI
Published Jun 07, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026