CVE-2006-1957 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The com_rss option (rss.php) in (1) Mambo and (2) Joomla! allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and possibly web-server outage) via multiple requests with different values of the feed parameter.

Published: 2006-04-21

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:joomla:joomla\!::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mambo-foundation:mambo:-:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-1957	The com_rss option (rss.php) in (1) Mambo and (2) Joomla! allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and possibly web-server outage) via multiple requests with different values of the feed parameter.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00283.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-04/0380.html
http://irannetjob.com/content/view/209/28/
http://www.kapda.ir/advisory-313.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431317/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26131

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Joomla Joomla\!

Mambo-foundation Mambo

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-04-21T10:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:35:29.647Z

Reserved: 2006-04-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-1957

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-04-21T10:02:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-1957

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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