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.
Published: 2012-06-07
Score: 3.5 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-0019 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-hq3f-9gf7-73r8 Openstack Compute (Nova) Denial of service via network request that triggers large number of iptables rules
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1438-1 Nova vulnerability
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:26:08.143Z

Reserved: 2012-04-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-2101

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Status : Modified

Published: 2012-06-07T19:55:08.290

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-2101

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