{"id":"GHSA-w45j-f5g5-w94x","summary":"Apache James vulnerable to buffering attack","details":"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.","aliases":["CVE-2022-28220"],"modified":"2026-07-17T21:15:55.935473923Z","published":"2022-09-09T00:00:57Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2022-09-15T03:33:49Z","nvd_published_at":"2022-09-08T08:15:00Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-77"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28220"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/apache/james-project"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://james.apache.org/james/update/2022/08/26/james-3.7.1.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/20/1"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"org.apache.james:james-server","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.james/james-server"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.6.3"}]}],"versions":["3.0-M1","3.0-M2","3.0-beta2","3.0-beta3","3.0-beta4","3.0.0","3.0.0-RC1","3.0.0-beta5","3.0.1","3.1.0","3.2.0","3.3.0","3.4.0","3.5.0","3.6.0","3.6.2"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/09/GHSA-w45j-f5g5-w94x/GHSA-w45j-f5g5-w94x.json"}},{"package":{"name":"org.apache.james:james-server","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.james/james-server"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"3.7.0"},{"fixed":"3.7.1"}]}],"versions":["3.7.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/09/GHSA-w45j-f5g5-w94x/GHSA-w45j-f5g5-w94x.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}