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CVE-2024-37358
February 06, 2025
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.
Additional Notes
The description of this vulnerability differs from MITRE.
Related Resources (6)
https://github.com/apache/james-project/commit/6dd3ad9ea1f6a9bc887d2c7af3f5aa30a60ec769
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37358
https://lists.apache.org/thread/1pxsh11v5s3fkvhnqvkmlqwt3fgpcrqc
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q1/104
https://github.com/apache/james-project/commit/b2f3c06edfd37b409121bf04c56a6f026048a77e
https://github.com/apache/james-project
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
9.2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
HIGH
CVSS v3
Base Score:
8.6
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Input Validation
CWE-20
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-770
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-400
EPSS
Base Score:
3.04