CVE detail
CVE-2013-7040 — CVE-2013-7040
Published 2014-05-19 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor apple · Product mac_os_x · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0326
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
87.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
Python 2.7 before 3.4 only uses the last eight bits of the prefix to randomize hash values, which causes it to compute hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably and makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1150.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References