CVE-2012-0839
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.7%EU EUVD
OCaml 3.12.1 and earlier computes hash values without 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 2.7% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0864)
- Published
- February 8, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0864 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
- inria / ocaml
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/07/2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47853
- http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01477.html
- http://www.mail-archive.com/caml-list%40inria.fr/msg01478.html
- http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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