apache/james-project · Security
Apache James vulnerable to denial of service through the use of IMAP literals
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-56jp-w6vw-j3jw
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-37358
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Similarly to CVE-2024-34055, Apache James is vulnerable to denial of service through the abuse of IMAP literals from both authenticated and unauthenticated users, which could be used to cause unbounded memory allocation and very long computations
Version 3.7.6 and 3.8.2 restrict such illegitimate use of IMAP literals.
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37358 ↗
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/1pxsh11v5s3fkvhnqvkmlqwt3fgpcrqc ↗
- https://github.com/apache/james-project/commit/6dd3ad9ea1f6a9bc887d2c7af3f5aa30a60ec769 ↗
- https://github.com/apache/james-project/commit/b2f3c06edfd37b409121bf04c56a6f026048a77e ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-56jp-w6vw-j3jw ↗