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🛡️ CVE-2008-4310 — webrick

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

WEBrick Denial of Service Vulnerability

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.

Weakness class

CVE-2008-4310 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2008-4310 is recorded against 1 package.

  • webrick (fixed in 1.3.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 2 May 2022 and last revised on 9 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
oval.cisecurity.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
www.redhat.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

webrick has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-02
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-02-09
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
webrick 1.3.1

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