GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r · Severity: high · Ecosystem: rubygems — WEBrick Denial of Service Vulnerability
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.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-4310 is rated High Exploit Risk (78.4/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 6.19%, 91th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32222 | exploit_db | edb | 2008-08-11 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-05-05 | 5.79% | 6.19% | +0.39% |
| 2 | 2026-01-29 | 5.35% | 5.79% | +0.44% |
| 3 | 2025-12-28 | — | 5.35% | — |
Full EPSS history (19 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 2.0 | HIGH |
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10.0 | 6.9 | [email protected] |
GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r · Severity: high · Ecosystem: rubygems — WEBrick Denial of Service Vulnerability
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4310 |