CVE-2022-29701 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause denial of service by flooding the forgot password feature with excessive reset requests, generating massive email traffic.
- 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-2022-29701?
CVE-2022-29701 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Zammad Zammad, published on 27 Apr 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A lack of rate limiting in the 'forgot password' feature of Zammad v5.1.0 allows attackers to send an excessive amount of reset requests for a legitimate user, leading to a possible Denial of Service (DoS) via a large amount of generated e-mail messages.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-29701?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Zammad Zammad.
How do I fix CVE-2022-29701?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-29701 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-2022-29701 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29701 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Zammad Zammad
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5pr8-75gv-c9q3.