CVE-2012-3514

CVE-2012-3514 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the OCaml Xml-Light Library (before r234). The flaw stems from its hash value computation, which allows attackers to trigger predictable hash collisions, leading to high CPU consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.