CVE-2007-6059 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service via connection pool exhaustion by triggering exceptions with invalid email login attempts.
- 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-2007-6059?
CVE-2007-6059 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Nov 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Javamail does not properly handle a series of invalid login attempts in which the same e-mail address is entered as username and password, and the domain portion of this address yields a Java UnknownHostException error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool exhaustion) via a large number of requests, resulting in a SQLNestedException. NOTE: Sun disputes this issue, stating "The report makes references to source code and files that do not exist in the mentioned products.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-6059?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Sun Javamail.
How do I fix CVE-2007-6059?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-6059 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-2007-6059 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-6059 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rjpw-fjc2-vvf4.