Vulnerability Details : CVE-2008-3443

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.
Published 2008-08-14 23:41:00
Updated 2018-10-03 21:55:15
Source MITRE
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Denial of service

Products affected by CVE-2008-3443

Threat overview for CVE-2008-3443

Top countries where our scanners detected CVE-2008-3443
Top open port discovered on systems with this issue 443
IPs affected by CVE-2008-3443 1,791
Threat actors abusing to this issue? Yes
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-3443

EPSS FAQ
18.39%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 96 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2008-3443

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
5.0
 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
10.0
2.9
 NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2008-3443

  • Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2008-3443

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