CVE-2018-8777
Public on 2018-04-03
Modified on 2019-08-27
Description
It was found that WEBrick could be forced to use an excessive amount of memory during the processing of HTTP requests, leading to a Denial of Service. An attacker could use this flaw to send huge requests to a WEBrick application, resulting in the server running out of memory.
Severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 2 - Core | ruby | 2019-08-23 | ALAS2-2019-1276 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | ruby20 | 2018-04-04 | ALAS-2018-983 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | ruby22 | 2018-04-04 | ALAS-2018-983 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | ruby23 | 2018-04-04 | ALAS-2018-983 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | ruby24 | 2018-04-04 | ALAS-2018-983 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
| Score Type | Score | Vector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |