CVE-2021-40110

Apache James IMAP vulnerable to a ReDoS

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 4, 2022
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Aug 25, 2021

Description

In Apache James, using Jazzer fuzzer, we identified that an IMAP user can craft IMAP LIST commands to orchestrate a Denial Of Service using a vulnerable Regular expression. This affected Apache James prior to 3.6.1 We recommend upgrading to Apache James 3.6.1 or higher , which enforce the use of RE2J regular expression engine to execute regex in linear time without back-tracking.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache JamesApache Software Foundation	Apache James through 3.6.0Affected

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/04/2
[oss-security] 20220104 CVE-2021-40110: Apache James IMAP vulnerable to a ReDoSmailing-list

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