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CVE-2012-3514 json

OCaml Xml-Light Library before r234 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allo…

published 2012-08-25 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-3469

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OCaml Xml-Light Library before r234 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 unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • xml-light Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.2-15

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3514

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-3514 updated cvss 5.0

ocaml-xml-light: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ocaml-xml-light
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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