PHPJabbers Hotel Booking System 4.0 Forgot Email denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in PHPJabbers Hotel Booking System 4.0. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Forgot Email. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-51301. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in PHPJabbers Hotel Booking System 4.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Forgot Email. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

A lack of rate limiting in the "Login Section, Forgot Email" feature of PHPJabbers Hotel Booking System v4.0 allows attackers to send an excessive amount of reset requests for a legitimate user, leading to a possible Denial of Service (DoS) via a large amount of generated e-mail messages.

This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-51301 since 12/18/2023. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-56022). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.1

VulDB Base Score: 3.1
VulDB Temp Score: 3.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

12/18/2023 🔍
02/20/2025 +430 days 🔍
02/20/2025 +0 days 🔍
03/07/2026 +380 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2023-51301 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-51301
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-296311
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Entryinfo

Created: 02/20/2025 07:15
Updated: 03/07/2026 11:40
Changes: 02/20/2025 07:15 (53), 03/07/2026 11:40 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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