CVE-2011-5037

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-12-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Google V8 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, as demonstrated by attacks against Node.js.

Affected products

Google V8: all versions

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0181.html
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://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0181.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934
http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html

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