CVE-2012-2101

lowpriority · track · 15EPSS 0.015 · 73 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.46% (73rd) EPSS

CVSS 3.5 · low

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

3.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.03.5lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 2.9

v2.03lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimary

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
openstack nova= 2011.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack nova= 2012.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack nova= folsomnvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:nova:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI novaall versionsosvUSpkg:pypi/nova
PyPI nova< 12.0.0a0osvUSpkg:pypi/nova

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-hq3f-9gf7-73r8Openstack Compute (Nova) Denial of service via network request that triggers large number of iptables rules2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
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.
PYSEC-2012-362012-06-07vendor · osvUS
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.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-06-07modified 2026-06-16

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references (35)

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