CVE-2022-28220

HIGH

Apache James < 3.6.3 and 3.7.1 - Command Injection via STARTTLS Buffering Attack

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://james.apache.org/james/update/2022/08/26/james-3.7.1.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/20/1

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0918

EPSS Percentile 92.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-77

Status published

Products (3)

apache/james 3.7.0

apache/james < 3.6.2

org.apache.james/james-server 0 - 3.6.3Maven

Published Sep 08, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026