CVE-2022-28220

published 2022-09-08

CVE-2022-28220: Apache James prior to release 3.6.3 and 3.7.1 is vulnerable to a buffering attack relying on the use of the STARTTLS command. Fix of CVE-2021-38542, which…

Priority P3 39 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

Apache James prior to release 3.6.3 and 3.7.1 is vulnerable to a buffering attack relying on the use of the STARTTLS command. Fix of CVE-2021-38542, which solved similar problem fron Apache James 3.6.1, is subject to a parser differential and do not take into account concurrent requests.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
apache	james	<= 3.6.2	—
apache	james	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

ghsa 5.9 MEDIUM

osv 5.9 MEDIUM

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