CVE-2012-5373: oracle jdk Cryptographic Issues

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-5373 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in oracle jdk. EPSS estimates a 2.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 28-11-2012
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Oracle Java SE 7 and earlier, and OpenJDK 7 and earlier, 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 MurmurHash3 algorithm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-2739.

• CWE-310Cryptographic IssuesWeaknesses in this category are related to the design and implementation of data confidentiality and integrity. Frequently these deal with the use of encoding techniques, encryption libraries, and hashing algorithms. The weaknesses in this category could lead to a degradation of the quality data if they are not addressed.