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CVE-2006-6303

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
06/12/2006
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The read_multipart function in cgi.rb in Ruby before 1.8.5-p2 does not properly detect boundaries in MIME multipart content, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted HTTP requests, a different issue than CVE-2006-5467.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:yukihiro_matsumoto:ruby:1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:yukihiro_matsumoto:ruby:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:yukihiro_matsumoto:ruby:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:yukihiro_matsumoto:ruby:1.8.2_pre1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:yukihiro_matsumoto:ruby:1.8.2_pre2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:yukihiro_matsumoto:ruby:1.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:yukihiro_matsumoto:ruby:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:yukihiro_matsumoto:ruby:1.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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