Email flooding
Description
It is possible to send emails massively to a victims inbox, causing its saturation.
Impact
- Send massive spam to a user email.
- Hide important information of another emails.
Recommendation
Restrict the consecutive send of emails through mechanisms like time delay.
Threat
Authenticated attacker from the Internet.
Expected Remediation Time
⌚ minutes.
Score
Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.
Base
- Attack vector: A
- Attack complexity: L
- Privileges required: N
- User interaction: N
- Scope: U
- Confidentiality: N
- Integrity: L
- Availability: N
Temporal
- Exploit code madurity: H
- Remediation level: U
- Report confidence: C
Result
- Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:H/RL:U/RC:C
- Score:
- Base: 4.3
- Temporal: 4.3
- Severity:
- Base: Medium
- Temporal: Medium
Requirements
Fixes
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