CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2011-4815
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
4.21%
Original NVD Description
Ruby (aka CRuby) before 1.8.7-p357 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 crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table.