Overview
- 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.
- Source
- security@apache.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:james:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "423D85DB-E258-4B34-B941-99C4458273E6",
"versionEndIncluding": "3.6.2"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:james:3.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "7D32CBE3-3A1D-4D8F-8C91-E127FAB55BFF"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]