GHSA-pjvw-p2v5-wf6q

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    GHSA-pjvw-p2v5-wf6q

    Published: 14 May 2022Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary: OpenStack Nova Long server names grow nova-api log files significantly

    Details: OpenStack Compute (Nova) Essex before 2011.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (Nova-API log file and disk consumption) via a long server name.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1585, https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/962515, https://github.com/openstack/nova, http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/0fa7d12dbfb7ae016657dd91034b4c0781ea43de, http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1ebec5726c7a9db0a6f29fad0ef747b0c087f702, http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/c7f526fae6062e9ab51f65474af71d496aa66554, http://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/c869a41951b77c6930bf4fb4734f05cd3d6ac4b1, http://lwn.net/Alerts/491298, http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-cloud-computing/2012-03/msg01133.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nova

    Purl: pkg:pypi/nova

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -12.0.0a0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High
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