CVE-2006-0450 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the phpBB application by registering many users or performing specific database-confusing searches.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-0450?
CVE-2006-0450 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Phpbb Group Phpbb, published on 27 Jan 2006. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
phpBB 2.0.19 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by (1) registering many users through profile.php or (2) using search.php to search in a certain way that confuses the database.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-0450?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Phpbb Group Phpbb.
How do I fix CVE-2006-0450?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-0450 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-0450 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-0450 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Other vulnerabilities in Phpbb Group Phpbb
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j4gj-7wfh-5pg2.