CVE-2012-5371

CVE-2012-5371 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Ruby 1.9 before 1.9.3-p327 and 2.0 before r37575. This flaw allows attackers to cause high CPU consumption by exploiting predictable hash collisions in applications that use hash tables, impacting the availability of affected Ruby applications. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.