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ruby: DoS by large request in WEBrick

Published Apr 3, 2018

Description

In Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1, an attacker can pass a large HTTP request with a crafted header to WEBrick server or a crafted body to WEBrick server/handler and cause a denial of service (memory consumption).

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

This issue affects the versions of ruby as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms 4. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Moderate. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/. This issue affects the versions of ruby as shipped with Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Moderate. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References (24)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 3, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Mar 19, 2018
Link CVE-2018-8777
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2018-8777
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Mar 28, 2018
Links CVE-2018-8777 - Bugzilla