CVE-2022-28220
HIGH7.5EPSS 9.2%Apache James vulnerable to buffering attack
Published: 9/9/2022Modified: 2/4/2026
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Maven/org.apache.james:james-serverfrom 0, < 3.6.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |