CVE-2022-28220 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2022-28220

STARTTLS command injection in Apache JAMES

7.5 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Apache James PMC would like to thanks Benoit TELLIER for this report, and Fabian Ising for his support.

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Affected Vendor

Apache Software Foundation

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Affected Software

Apache James

Vulnerable Versions:

Apache James

Timeline

Official Publish: September 8th, 2022

Last Modified: August 3rd, 2024

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

Command and Control