CVE-2012-2101
Openstack Compute (Nova) Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3 does not limit the number of security group rules, which allows remote authenticated…
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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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (12)
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1f644d210557b1254f7c7b39424b09a45329ade7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 81641 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1438-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [openstack] 20120419 [OSSA 2012-005] No quota enforced on security group rules (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- nova-quotas-dos(75243) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-6365 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a67db4586f70ed881d65e80035b2a25be195ce64 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-6273 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 49048 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/969545 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 49034 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-0019 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hq3f-9gf7-73r8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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