CVE-2008-4310
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 13.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 13.6% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-5565)
- Published
- December 9, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-5565 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ruby-lang / ruby
- ruby-lang / ruby
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33013(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/04/2
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0981.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470252
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10250
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
Query CVEs from your AI assistant
The CVE/NVD Explorer brain answers CVE questions directly inside Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP assistant — always up to date, no setup. Add it once and stop pasting advisories into chat.
Add the CVE brain