CVE-2012-2101
LOW · CVSS 3.5EPSS 1.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 1.5% (74th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0019)
- Published
- June 7, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0019 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openstack / nova
- openstack / nova
- openstack / nova
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079434.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079551.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49034(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49048(Vendor Advisory)
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1438-1
- http://www.osvdb.org/81641
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/969545
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75243
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1f644d210557b1254f7c7b39424b09a45329ade7
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a67db4586f70ed881d65e80035b2a25be195ce64
- https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg10268.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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