Denial of Service Vulnerability in Openstack Compute (Nova) Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3

CVE-2012-2101 · LOW Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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