CVE-2012-2101

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-2101
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-07 19:55:08 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionOpenstack 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openstack Nova 2011.3 All All All
Application Openstack Nova 2012.1 All All All
Application Openstack Nova folsom All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Implement quotas for security groups. · openstack/nova@a67db45 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
Security Advisory SA49034 - OpenStack Compute (Nova) iptables Resource Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Implement security group quotas. · openstack/nova@1f644d2 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
[OSSA 2012-005] No quota enforced on security group rules : Mailing list archive : openstack team in Launchpad af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.launchpad.net
Bug #969545 “missing quotas on security group rules” : Bugs : OpenStack Compute (nova) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.launchpad.net
USN-1438-1: Nova vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: openstack-nova-2012.1-2.fc17 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Security Advisory SA49048 - Ubuntu update for nova - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Implement quotas for security groups. · openstack/nova@8c8735a · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: openstack-nova-2011.3.1-8.fc16 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www.osvdb.org/81641 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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