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Oracle GlassFish Server Hash Collision Denial of Service Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
11 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
The host is running GlassFish Server and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to an error within a hash generation function when hashing form posts and updating a hash table. This can be exploited to cause a hash collision resulting in high CPU consumption via a specially crafted form sent in a HTTP POST request.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Oracle GlassFish version 3.1.1 and prior.
Solution
Solution
Apply the updates from the referenced advisory.