CRITICAL9.1

GHSA-c38m-7h53-g9v4

Path traversal in Apache James

Quick fix

GHSA-c38m-7h53-g9v4 — org.apache.james:james-server: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

# pom.xml: bump <version>3.6.1</version> for org.apache.james:james-server

Details

Apache James ManagedSieve implementation alongside with the file storage for sieve scripts is vulnerable to path traversal, allowing reading and writing any file. This vulnerability had been patched in Apache James 3.6.1 and higher. We recommend the upgrade. Distributed and Cassandra based products are also not impacted.

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Affected packages

Maven/org.apache.james:james-server

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3.6.1

Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>3.6.1</version> for org.apache.james:james-server

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40525[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/apache/james-project[PACKAGE]
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/04/4[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/04/4[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/07/1[WEB]