Description
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.
Published: 2008-12-09
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: 6.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-5565 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r WEBrick Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
Ruby-lang Ruby
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:08:35.153Z

Reserved: 2008-09-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-4310

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-12-09T00:30:00.220

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-4310

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-12-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-4310 - Bugzilla

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