Mailbox denial of service via unlimited password resets
Published Feb 20, 2025 · Updated Nov 4, 2025
Resource exhaustion in PHPJabbers Event Ticketing System 1.0 allows remote authenticated users to flood a legitimate user's mailbox. The Forgot Password handler accepts repeated reset requests without rate limiting and generates an email for each request. An account-level requester can repeatedly target a legitimate user, consuming mail-processing capacity and disrupting mailbox availability.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in PHPJabbers Event Ticketing System 1.0 allows remote authenticated users to flood a legitimate user's mailbox. The Forgot Password handler accepts repeated reset requests without rate limiting and generates an email for each request. An account-level requester can repeatedly target a legitimate user, consuming mail-processing capacity and disrupting mailbox availability.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-51339
- Published
- Feb 20, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499.003
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 20, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 4, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Public exploit references
- PHPJabbers Event Ticketing System 1.0 Missing Rate Limiting disclosureproof of concept · unverified
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