CVE-2024-37358 (GCVE-0-2024-37358)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-06 11:22 – Updated: 2025-09-01 09:40
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache James server Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.7.5 (semver)
Affected: 3.8.0 , ≤ 3.8.1 (semver)
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Credits
Xavier GUIMARD Benoit TELLIER
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