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CVE-2011-5036

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-5036 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Rack versions prior to 1.1.3, 1.2.5, and 1.3.6. Attackers can exploit this by sending specially crafted form parameters that trigger predictable hash collisions, leading to high CPU consumption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rack_project:rack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rack_project:rack:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rack_project:rack:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rack_project:rack:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rack_project:rack:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.02%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0402 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.jruby:jruby-parentFixed in: 1.6.5.1
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: rackFixed in: 1.1.3
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: rackFixed in: 1.2.5
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: rackFixed in: 1.3.6
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: rubygem-rack

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-v6j3-7jrw-hq2pmedium

Rack Gem Subject to Denial of Service via Hash Collisions

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2011-5036Moderate

rubygem-rack: hash table collisions DoS (oCERT-2011-003)

Dec 28, 2011

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0181.html
gist.github.com / 52bbc6b9cc19ce330829
Exploit
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2783
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/903934
US Government Resource
nruns.com / _downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
ocert.org / advisories/ocert-2011-003.html