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CVE-2012-5371

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues
Publication date:
28/11/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Ruby (aka CRuby) 1.9 before 1.9.3-p327 and 2.0 before r37575 computes hash values without properly restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table, as demonstrated by a universal multicollision attack against a variant of the MurmurHash2 algorithm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4815.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:p286:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.9.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p0:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p125:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:p194:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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