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CVE-2006-0538
CipherTrust IronMail 5.0.1, when "Denial of Service Protection" is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (possibly…
Low2.6EPSS 2.1%
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- mitre
Description
CipherTrust IronMail 5.0.1, when "Denial of Service Protection" is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (possibly CPU consumption) via a SYN flood with malformed TCP packets from multiple connections.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.6.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 407 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- ironmail-tcpsyn-flood-dos(24445) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 16465 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1015555 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20060203 IronMail-5.0.1-Denial of-Service-Protection-Lets-Remote-Users-Deny-Service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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