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CVE-2012-2101

LOW · CVSS 3.5 EPSS 1.48% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2012-06-07 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.5. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may be remotely exploitable. Exploitation may require the attacker to be authenticated. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2012-2101
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.5
EPSS
1.48%

Original NVD Description

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.