VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2011-4838

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability4.20%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2011-12-30
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

JRuby before 1.6.5.1 computes hash values without 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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references