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CVE-2012-5373

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5373 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Oracle Java SE and OpenJDK versions 7 and earlier. The flaw allows attackers to trigger predictable hash collisions, leading to high CPU consumption when crafted input is processed by applications using hash tables. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity to achieve 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
<= 1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:openjdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0229 is in the 72nd 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

Vendor Patches (13)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.4.2-ibm
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.4.2-ibm-sap
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.4.2-ibm-sap
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-5373Moderate

java: Murmur hash function collisions (oCERT-2012-001)

Nov 23, 2012

References

2012.appsec-forum.ch / conferences
asfws12.files.wordpress.com / 2012/11/asfws2012-jean_philippe_aumasson-martin_bosslet-hash_flooding_dos_reloaded.pdf
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/80299
131002.net / data/talks/appsec12_slides.pdf
ocert.org / advisories/ocert-2012-001.html
securityfocus.com / bid/56673