CVE detail

CVE-2008-4678 — CVE-2008-4678

Published 2008-10-22 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor ibm · Product websphere_application_server · Source nvd

UNKNOWN

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0192

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

78.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

The HTTP_Request_Parser method in the HTTP Transport component in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.0.2 before 6.0.2.31 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (controller 0C4 abend and application hang) via a long HTTP Host header, related to "storage overlay" on the stack and a "parse failure."

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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