Vulnerability CVE-2012-3371

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2012-3371 (CCN-76857)

Assigned:

2012-07-11

Published:

2012-07-11

Updated:

2012-08-24

Summary:

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.

CVSS v3 Severity:

5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Low

CVSS v2 Severity:

3.5 Low (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
2.6 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

5.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
3.7 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-20

Vulnerability Consequences:

Denial of Service

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2012-3371

Source: CCN
Type: OSSA 2012-009
Scheduler denial of service through scheduler_hints (CVE-2012-3371)

Source: CCN
Type: SA49816
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Scheduler Node Denial of Service Vulnerability

Source: MLIST
Type: UNKNOWN
[oss-security] 20120711 [OSSA 2012-009] Scheduler denial of service through scheduler_hints (CVE-2012-3371)

Source: CCN
Type: OSVDB ID: 83735
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Nova Scheduler Node scheduler_hints Parameter Request Parsing Remote DoS

Source: BID
Type: UNKNOWN
54388

Source: CCN
Type: BID-54388
OpenStack Compute (Nova) CVE-2012-3371 Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Source: UBUNTU
Type: UNKNOWN
USN-1501-1

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Exploit
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1017795

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
openstack-scheduler-dos(76857)

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Exploit, Patch
https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/034762e8060dcf0a11cb039b9d426b0d0bb1801d

Source: MLIST
Type: UNKNOWN
[openstack] 20120711 [OSSA 2012-009] Scheduler denial of service through scheduler_hints (CVE-2012-3371)

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:openstack:compute:2012.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:openstack:essex:2012.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/a:openstack:folsom:2012.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration CCN 1:

cpe:/a:openstack:compute:2012.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17038	P	USN-1501-1 -- nova vulnerability	2014-06-30
oval:com.ubuntu.precise:def:20123371000	V	CVE-2012-3371 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) - medium.	2012-07-17

BACK