Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2005-1807. PoCs published by Mariano Nunez Di Croce.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This is a writeup describing a DoS vulnerability in PHPMailer 1.72 and prior versions. The vulnerability is triggered by sending an email with a malformed header field containing an excessively long string, causing an infinite loop and resource exhaustion.
Description
The Data function in class.smtp.php in PHPMailer 1.7.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop leading to memory and CPU consumption) via a long header field.
Exploits (1)
This is a writeup describing a DoS vulnerability in PHPMailer 1.72 and prior versions. The vulnerability is triggered by sending an email with a malformed header field containing an excessively long string, causing an infinite loop and resource exhaustion.