CVE-2008-4310
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · CWE-399
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)14%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33013Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250