CVE-2022-28220 - OpenCVE

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.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

Vendors & Products
CPE Configurations

Vendors	Products
Apache	James

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:apache:james::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:apache:james:3.7.0:::::::*

References

Link	Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/20/1	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://james.apache.org/james/update/2022/08/26/james-3.7.1.html	Patch Release Notes Vendor Advisory

History

No history.

MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published: 2022-09-08T07:40:09

Updated: 2022-09-20T11:06:21

Reserved: 2022-03-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-28220

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NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-09-08T08:15:07.813

Modified: 2022-09-30T19:16:02.960

Link: CVE-2022-28220

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Redhat Information

No data.

CWE

CWE-77

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