CVE-2008-3656

60Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 70%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDAug 13

1st PoCAug 11

metasploitAug 8

exploitation probability

70%top 1% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the WEBrick::HTTPUtils.split_header_value function in WEBrick::HTTP::DefaultFileHandler in WEBrick 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 context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted HTTP request that is processed by a backtracking regular expression.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

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