Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-4078

Title: Php Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-4078.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Nov 03, 2011
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.26%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-4078: 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.

Impacted Vendors

P
php 1
C
cobalt 1
R
roundcube 1
P
php_group 1
V
vdesk 1

Reference Links

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
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-4078 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.