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SCA: security update for webrick (GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432111

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2008-4310)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wfrc-r6c6-7j9r

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432111

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-4310

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4310

BID: 30644

cwe: CWE-400