CVE-2012-2101 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2012-2101

Openstack Compute (Nova) Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3 does not limit...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

nova
Vulnerable Versions:
2011.3, 2012.1, folsom

Timeline

Official Publish: June 7th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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