CVE-2022-28220

STARTTLS command injection in Apache JAMES

EPSS 1.7%CWE-77

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 1.7%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

08 Sep 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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 products

Apache Software Foundation · Apache James

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References

https://james.apache.org/james/update/2022/08/26/james-3.7.1.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/20/1