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SCA: security update for nova (GHSA-hq3f-9gf7-73r8)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433538

Description

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

 - 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.
 (CVE-2012-2101)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hq3f-9gf7-73r8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433538

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-2101

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2101

BID: 53297