🛡️ CVE-2012-2101 — nova

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Openstack Compute (Nova) Denial of service via network request that triggers large number of iptables rules

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.

Affected software

CVE-2012-2101 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nova (fixed in 12.0.0a0)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 22 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
bugs.launchpad.net (Web)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
lists.launchpad.net (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
lists.fedoraproject.org (Web)
ubuntu.com (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-11-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nova 12.0.0a0

References

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