CVE-2007-0538

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-01-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Telligent Community Server 2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth or thread consumption) via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to (1) a large file, which triggers a long download session without a timeout constraint; or (2) a file with a binary content type, which is downloaded even though it cannot contain usable pingback data.

Affected products

Telligent Systems Community Server Forums: through 2.1

References

http://osvdb.org/33583
http://osvdb.org/33584
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2211
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457996/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457999/100/0/threaded
http://osvdb.org/33583
http://osvdb.org/33584
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2211
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457996/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457999/100/0/threaded

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