CVE-2012-2101 (GCVE-0-2012-2101)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-07 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:26
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
12 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1f644d21… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.osvdb.org/81641 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8c8735a7… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1438-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg10268.html | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a67db458… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/49048 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/969545 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/49034 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
Date Public
2012-04-19 00:00
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"version": "3"
},
"suse_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "moderate",
"current_release_date": "2026-05-10T01:21:23Z",
"cve": "CVE-2012-2101",
"id": "CVE-2012-2101",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:47:21Z",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2012-2101",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2012-2101.json",
"version": "4"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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