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CVE-2012-3371
The Nova scheduler in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1), when DifferentHostFilter or SameHostFilter is enabled,…
Low3.5EPSS 1.9%
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- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 21% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (6)
- 54388 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [openstack] 20120711 [OSSA 2012-009] Scheduler denial of service through scheduler_hints (CVE-2012-3371) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1017795 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120711 [OSSA 2012-009] Scheduler denial of service through scheduler_hints (CVE-2012-3371) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-1501-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/034762e8060dcf0a11cb039b9d426b0d0bb1801d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xxgm-qpj5-4886 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .