01 Record
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:
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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:
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 13.55% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-12-09 00:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:08Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-09-29
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 2fb180043c912d1dd019122da1387a0bc2374032a65ed75ed5174598221c2536
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2008:0981http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10250https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20081204 ruby CVE-2008-4310 (Red Hat specific)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2
- secunia.com33013http://secunia.com/advisories/33013