CVE-2023-50455 (GCVE-0-2023-50455)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-10 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-28 15:21
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Summary
An issue was discovered in Zammad before 6.2.0. Due to lack of rate limiting in the "email address verification" feature, an attacker could send many requests for a known address to cause Denial Of Service (generation of many emails, which would also spam the victim).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
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