CVE-2006-1338 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via CPU consumption by sending incorrectly encoded quoted-printable emails to MailEnable Webmail.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2006-1338?

CVE-2006-1338 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 21 Mar 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Webmail in MailEnable Professional Edition before 1.73 and Enterprise Edition before 1.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified vectors involving "incorrectly encoded quoted-printable emails".

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1338?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mailenable Mailenable Enterprise, Mailenable Mailenable Professional.

How do I fix CVE-2006-1338?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-1338 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-2006-1338 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1338 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-f75v-5w7p-73ww.

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