CVE-2011-4078

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-11-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

include/iniset.php in Roundcube Webmail 0.5.4 and earlier, when PHP 5.3.7 or 5.3.8 is used, allows remote attackers to trigger a GET request for an arbitrary URL, and cause a denial of service (resource consumption and inbox outage), via a Subject header containing only a URL, a related issue to CVE-2011-3379.

Affected products

Roundcube Webmail: through 0.5.4; 0.1, 0.1-alpha, 0.1-beta, 0.1-beta2, 0.1-rc1, 0.1-rc2 (+19)

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/26/6
http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1488086
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50402
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71025
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/26/6
http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1488086
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50402
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71025

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