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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…
High7.8EPSS 13.6%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.6% · top 3.5% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemswebrickGHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- RHSA-2008:0981 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10250 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081204 ruby CVE-2008-4310 (Red Hat specific) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 33013 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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