openstack/nova · Security
OpenStack Nova Scheduler denial of service through scheduler_hints
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-xxgm-qpj5-4886
- CVE ID
- CVE-2012-3371
- Severity
- low
- Published
- Updated
Description
The Nova scheduler in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1), when DifferentHostFilter or SameHostFilter is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (excessive database lookup calls and server hang) via a request with many repeated IDs in the os:scheduler_hints section.
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3371 ↗
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/034762e8060dcf0a11cb039b9d426b0d0bb1801d ↗
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1017795 ↗
- https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14452.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/13 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1501-1 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/nova/PYSEC-2012-40.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxgm-qpj5-4886 ↗