HIGH7.5

GHSA-w45j-f5g5-w94x

Apache James vulnerable to buffering attack

Quick fix

GHSA-w45j-f5g5-w94x — org.apache.james:james-server: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

# pom.xml: bump <version>3.6.3</version> for org.apache.james:james-server

Details

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.

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Affected packages

Maven/org.apache.james:james-server

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3.6.3

Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>3.6.3</version> for org.apache.james:james-server

Maven/org.apache.james:james-server

Introduced in: 3.7.0Fixed in: 3.7.1

Fix# pom.xml: bump <version>3.7.1</version> for org.apache.james:james-server

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28220[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/apache/james-project[PACKAGE]
https://james.apache.org/james/update/2022/08/26/james-3.7.1.html[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/20/1[WEB]