CVE-2007-6059

Javamail - Denial of Service via Invalid Login Connection Pool Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Javamail does not properly handle a series of invalid login attempts in which the same e-mail address is entered as username and password, and the domain portion of this address yields a Java UnknownHostException error, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection pool exhaustion) via a large number of requests, resulting in a SQLNestedException. NOTE: Sun disputes this issue, stating "The report makes references to source code and files that do not exist in the mentioned products.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/45299
Exploit mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-11/0239.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0094
EPSS Percentile 76.5%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (1)
sun/javamail
Published Nov 20, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026