CVE-2005-2431: Gforge

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) lost password and (2) account pending features in GForge 4.5 do not properly set a limit on the number of e-mails sent to an e-mail address, which allows remote attackers to send a large number of messages to arbitrary e-mail addresses (aka mail bomb).

Affected products

• Gforge Gforge: version 4.5 only

Published 2005-08-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.