Resource exhaustion in Geronimo - CVE-2011-5034
Published: August 6, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU113671
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-5034
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Apache Foundation
Affected software:
Geronimo
Geronimo
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to Apache Geronimo computes hash values for form parameters without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictablys. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2011-5034
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903934
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html
- https://github.com/FireFart/HashCollision-DOS-POC/blob/master/HashtablePOC.py
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47412
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0181.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8dc1a0ae0e0cf9d2494b8cbd66562f99331c4cf635e7781850a9b9ba@%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r20957aa5962a48328f199e2373f408aeeae601a45dd5275a195e2b6e@%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r653f633aa7b6ccbb8c338dbfcea7a00e4ae9d6f3e064a03cab8dc20d@%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb0e85243d7268f1d7a1edb5e6c7df885dbd300acabaaf4cb0e880518@%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdd67ea3e489134f653349fc2cb09828ac8462aa61dd776b505a3297a@%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r360b70489bad65286b49ceb5303a849d2a7ec7d1292774a7259579e1@%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r67747af92035942c9c413bd8394acbb8a1ace5833c0177014c825bc2@%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3c541f019b74902e8e61d73e40ecc2837dfce1b744ad5546919b993c@%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4fe6b5ff1d48e23337304fd5ac983d89328aecbd1fa198cfc966fbd7@%3Cdev.geronimo.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra1fe29f6399b68980f914d8613dee7f67d62a1a97722fe9cd56f4f5f@%3Cdev.geronimo.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra10015f6f3c3c88b7d813383554e87c06347fe163487148669189b8e@%3Cdev.geronimo.apache.org%3E