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CVE-2005-2431

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2005-08-09	gforge -- XSS and email flood vulnerabilities

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CVE-2005-2431 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2005-2431
Phase	Assigned(20050803)

Description

The (1) lost password and (2) account pending features in GForge 4.5 do not properly set a limit on the number of e-mails sent to an e-mail address, which allows remote attackers to send a large number of messages to arbitrary e-mail addresses (aka mail bomb).

References

Source	Reference
BUGTRAQ	20050727 Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities in GForge