CVE-2008-3443

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 16%

exploitation probability

16%top 3% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The regular expression engine (regex.c) in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) via multiple long requests to a Ruby socket, related to memory allocation failure, and as demonstrated against Webrick.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

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