CVE-2012-2101
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
3.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2012.1-2 |
| sid | Fixed | 2012.1-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 2012.1-2 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2012.1-2 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2012.1-2 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | nova | <12.0.0a0 | 12.0.0a0 |
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
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49048
- 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
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2101
- https://github.com/openstack/nova
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nova/PYSEC-2012-36.yaml
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2101
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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