CVE-2011-5037
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Google V8 computes hash values for form parameters without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted parameters, as demonstrated by attacks against Node.js.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| v8 | | |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0181.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934
- http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0181.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934
- http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.