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critical 9.8

CVE-2012-6125 json

Chicken before 4.8.0 is susceptible to algorithmic complexity attacks related to hash table collisions.

published 2019-10-31 7 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-5992

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Chicken before 4.8.0 is susceptible to algorithmic complexity attacks related to hash table collisions.

Patch / fix

  • call-cc chicken 4.8.0
  • chicken Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.8.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6125

Exploit prediction

1.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • chicken chicken

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.