jruby — security advisory
JRuby 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 the MurmurHash2 algorithm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4838.
- Products
- jruby
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.5.6-5
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-5370
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:27 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
JRuby 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 the MurmurHash2 algorithm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4838.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5370
jruby
Fixed versions: 1.5.6-5
jruby
Fixed versions: 1.5.6-5
jruby
Fixed versions: 1.5.6-5
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:44.174623200Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 418625,
"published_at": "2012-11-28T13:03:10.057+00:00"
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