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.

Affected products

Red Hat, Webrick

Ruby-lang Ruby

= 1.8.1, 1.8.5

CVSS 2.0

7.8 HIGH

EPSS

13.6% (96th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-399

NVD status

Modified

Published

2008-12-09