Vulnerability in Ruby-Lang Ruby
CVE-2008-4310
httputils.rb in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8.1 and 1.8.5, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted HTTP request. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-3656.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.136 (96.3th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.136 · newest: 0.136 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Ruby-Lang Ruby — versions 1.8.1, 1.8.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10250 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2 (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/33013 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)