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CVE-2012-2101

Openstack Compute (Nova) Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3 does not limit the number of security group rules, which allows remo

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.

LOW · CVSS 3.5 EPSS 0.00885
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  • No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence
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Affected Products & Versions

1
openstack novaall versions
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Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
PyPI nova LOW fixed in 12.0.0a0
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Scoring & Timeline

3.5
LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD07 Jun 2012 · 07:55 PM
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Vendor Advisories

1
usnUSN-1438-1
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References & Sources

12
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079434.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079551.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49034Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/49048Vendor Advisory
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1438-1
http://www.osvdb.org/81641
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