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ghsa-84wg-rgp8-2hg4

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-01-08 00:40

Modified

2022-09-21 19:38

Severity ?

5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

Command Injection in Apache James

Details

Apache James prior to release 3.6.1 is vulnerable to a buffering attack relying on the use of the STARTTLS command. This can result in Man-in -the-middle command injection attacks, leading potentially to leakage of sensible information.

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  "id": "GHSA-84wg-rgp8-2hg4",
  "modified": "2022-09-21T19:38:47Z",
  "published": "2022-01-08T00:40:33Z",
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cve-2021-38542

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-01-04 08:55

Modified

2024-08-04 01:44

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/04/1	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/04/1	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/20/1	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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Apache Software Foundation

Apache James

Version: Apache James < 3.6.1

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Nomenclature

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