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CVE-2006-5467

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-5467 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the cgi.rb CGI library for Ruby 1.8. An attacker can exploit this by sending a malformed HTTP request with an invalid multipart MIME boundary, leading to an infinite loop and high CPU consumption on the affected server. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, but only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yukihiro_matsumoto:ruby:1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0418 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

gentoopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: ruby-0:1.6.4-2.AS21.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ruby-0:1.6.8-9.EL3.8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: ruby-0:1.8.1-7.EL4.8
View patch
ubuntupatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-5467Moderate

Ruby CGI multipart parsing DoS

Oct 25, 2006

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P
PatchVendor Advisory
docs.info.apple.com / article.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
rubyforge.org / pipermail/mongrel-users/2006-October/001946.html
secunia.com / advisories/22615
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22624
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22761
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22929
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22932
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23040
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23344
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25402
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200611-12.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
Patch
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10185
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1234
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1235
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html
PatchVendor Advisory
openpkg.org / security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.030-ruby.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0729.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/20777
Patch
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-371-1
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4244
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4245
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/1939
Vendor Advisory