CVE-2011-4858
MEDIUMEPSS 100th pctlDescription
Apache Tomcat before 5.5.35, 6.x before 6.0.35, and 7.x before 7.0.23 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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-announce/201112.mbox/%3c4EFB9800.5010106%40apache.org%3e
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132871655717248&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133294394108746&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136485229118404&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0074.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0075.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0076.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0077.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0078.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0089.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0325.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0406.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48549
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48790
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48791
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54971
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55115
- http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2401
- 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://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51200
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750521
- https://github.com/FireFart/HashCollision-DOS-POC/blob/master/HashtablePOC.py
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18886
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