CVE-2006-0538

high

Description

CipherTrust IronMail 5.0.1, when "Denial of Service Protection" is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (possibly CPU consumption) via a SYN flood with malformed TCP packets from multiple connections.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24445

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16465

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423898/100/0/threaded

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015555

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/407

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-02-04

Updated: 2026-04-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00844