Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenStack Nova Scheduler
CVE-2012-3371

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: Openstack
Status: Compute; Essex; Folsom
Vendor: CVE Published:; 17 July 2012

What is CVE-2012-3371?

The Nova scheduler in OpenStack Compute is susceptible to a denial of service attack when specific filters are applied. This vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to exploit the system by sending requests containing numerous repeated IDs in the os:scheduler_hints section, resulting in excessive database lookup calls and potential server hang, impacting the overall performance of the system.

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