CVE-2008-4310
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
1.0
Description
WEBrick Denial of Service Vulnerability
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Ruby 1.9 - 'WEBrick::HTTP::DefaultFileHandler' Crafted HTTP Request Denial of Service
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4310
- https://github.com/ruby/webrick/commit/b2ccd5ff7ddd67a4548299e110dcc5a4728a5534
- https://github.com/ruby/webrick
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/webrick/CVE-2008-4310.yml
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111230125610/http://secunia.com/advisories/33013
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.