CVE-2006-1931

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-1931
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-04-20 21:02:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe HTTP/XMLRPC server in Ruby before 1.8.2 uses blocking sockets, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked connections) via a large amount of data.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS: 0.132140000 probability, percentile 0.941610000 (date 2026-04-20)

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby 1.6 All All All
Application Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby 1.6.1 All All All
Application Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby 1.6.2 All All All
Application Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby 1.6.3 All All All
Application Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby 1.6.4 All All All
Application Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby 1.6.5 All All All
Application Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby 1.6.6 All All All
Application Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby 1.6.7 All All All
Application Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby 1.8 All All All
Application Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby 1.8.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Ubuntu update for ruby - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Gentoo update for ruby af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Red Hat update for ruby - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-273-1: Ruby vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 usn.ubuntu.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-webrick-dos-1.patch af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.ruby-lang.org Patch
Ruby Safe-Level Security Bypass and Server Classes Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
www.osvdb.org/24972 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Ruby HTTP/XMLRPC Server Lets Remote Users Block Connections - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
Debian update for ruby1.8 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/27787 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp Patch
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.2-xmlrpc-dos-1.patch af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.ruby-lang.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Ruby: Denial of Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org
Mandriva update for ruby - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
189540 – CVE-2006-1931 Ruby http/xmlrpc server DoS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Patch
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1157-1 ruby1.8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby XMLRPC Server Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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