CVE-2012-0840

medium Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
37.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: February 10, 2012 (5207 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

Description

tables/apr_hash.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library through 1.4.5 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.

CWE

CWE-20

Affected Products

apache portable runtime

References

🔗 mail-archives.apache.org 🔗 openwall.com 🔗 openwall.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 svn.apache.org