Security advisory

{
  "id": "4af46e46d9e71d0d3225297b347257920789e8af6b9c389c1ea98f93f81e8af6",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-35488",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-35488",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-35488",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-35488",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2022-35488"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/zammad/zammad",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "29bf395d540985d2c78137c50ef48c975398af93"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "f8786f822c666dc2ca9e54d78e24c00963f617b6"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:zammad:zammad:5.2.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "5.2.0-NA"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "5.2.0-NA"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:zammad:zammad:5.2.0:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "5.2.0-alpha"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "5.2.0-alpha"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "5.2.0-NA",
            "5.2.0-alpha"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-35488.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:49.519154472Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/35xxx/CVE-2022-35488.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-35488",
        "https://zammad.com/de/advisories/zaa-2022-05"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/35xxx/CVE-2022-35488.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-35488",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 518069,
  "published_at": "2022-08-08T13:53:34+00:00"
}