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SCA: security update for Nova (GHSA-xxgm-qpj5-4886)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433060

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2012-3371)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxgm-qpj5-4886

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433060

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3371

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3371

BID: 54388

cwe: CWE-20