Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3371

Title: Openstack Essex Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3371.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Jul 17, 2012
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 3.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.85%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3371: 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.

Impacted Vendors

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openstack 3

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/13 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54388 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1501-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1017795 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/034762e8060dcf0a11cb039b9d426b0d0bb1801d https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14452.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/13 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54388 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1501-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1017795 https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/034762e8060dcf0a11cb039b9d426b0d0bb1801d https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14452.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
3.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-3371 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.