CVE-2007-6059

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Sun Javamail: all versions

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-11/0239.html
http://osvdb.org/45299
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-11/0239.html
http://osvdb.org/45299

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