CVE-2011-5034

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 80.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-12-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Apache Geronimo 2.2.1 and earlier 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. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2011-4461.

Affected products

Apache Geronimo: through 2.2.1; 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 2.0.1, 2.0.2 (+10)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0181.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/47412
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934
http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html
https://github.com/FireFart/HashCollision-DOS-POC/blob/master/HashtablePOC.py
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r20957aa5962a48328f199e2373f408aeeae601a45dd5275a195e2b6e%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r360b70489bad65286b49ceb5303a849d2a7ec7d1292774a7259579e1%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3c541f019b74902e8e61d73e40ecc2837dfce1b744ad5546919b993c%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4fe6b5ff1d48e23337304fd5ac983d89328aecbd1fa198cfc966fbd7%40%3Cdev.geronimo.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r653f633aa7b6ccbb8c338dbfcea7a00e4ae9d6f3e064a03cab8dc20d%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r67747af92035942c9c413bd8394acbb8a1ace5833c0177014c825bc2%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E

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