CVE-2012-3371

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-3371
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-07-17 21:55:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe Nova scheduler in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1), when DifferentHostFilter or SameHostFilter is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (excessive database lookup calls and server hang) via a request with many repeated IDs in the os:scheduler_hints section.

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-20 | 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 Compute 2012.2 All All All
Application Openstack Essex 2012.1 All All All
Application Openstack Folsom 2012.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[OSSA 2012-009] Scheduler denial of service through scheduler_hints (CVE-2012-3371) : Mailing list archive : openstack team in Launchpad af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.launchpad.net
Bug #1017795 “scheduler hang (DOS) possible with DifferentHostFi...” : Bugs : OpenStack Compute (nova) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.launchpad.net Exploit
OpenStack Compute (Nova) CVE-2012-3371 Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Use compute_api.get_all in affinity filters. · openstack/nova@034762e · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Exploit, Patch
oss-security - [OSSA 2012-009] Scheduler denial of service through scheduler_hints (CVE-2012-3371) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
USN-1501-1: Nova vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 996732 Python (Pip) Security Update for Nova (GHSA-xxgm-qpj5-4886)

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