CVE-2008-3656 (GCVE-0-2008-3656)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-13 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
30 references
Date Public
2008-08-08 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.