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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-35488 json

In Zammad 5.2.0, an attacker could manipulate the rate limiting in the 'forgot password' feature of Zammad, and thereby send many requests…

published 2022-08-08 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-38376

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Zammad 5.2.0, an attacker could manipulate the rate limiting in the 'forgot password' feature of Zammad, and thereby send many requests for a known account to cause Denial Of Service by many generated emails which would also spam the victim.

Exploit prediction

0.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Sources

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