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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2101

Original release date:06/07/2012

Last revised:11/06/2012

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:3.5 (LOW) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 6.8

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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External Source: MLIST

Name: [openstack] 20120419 [OSSA 2012-005] No quota enforced on security group rules

Hyperlink:https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg10268.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a67db4586f70ed881d65e80035b2a25be195ce64

Hyperlink:https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a67db4586f70ed881d65e80035b2a25be195ce64

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb

Hyperlink:https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1f644d210557b1254f7c7b39424b09a45329ade7

Hyperlink:https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1f644d210557b1254f7c7b39424b09a45329ade7