CVE-2024-37358

Apache James: denial of service through the use of IMAP literals

State: Published
Severity: 8.6 High
Published: Feb 6, 2025
Updated: Sep 1, 2025
Reserved: Jun 6, 2024

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.6 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	apache

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache James serverApache Software Foundation	3.7.5 and earlierAffected 3.8.0 through 3.8.1Affected

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/1pxsh11v5s3fkvhnqvkmlqwt3fgpcrqcvendor-advisory

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