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Advisory record · GHSA-56jp-w6vw-j3jw

Apache James vulnerable to denial of service through the use of IMAP literals

CVSS 8.6 HighEPSS 0.0088 · 59th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 6 Feb 2025, 12:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.apache.james.protocols:protocols-imapMaven<3.7.6 || >=3.8.0, <3.8.23.7.6, 3.8.2
Identifiers
GHSA-56jp-w6vw-j3jw · CVE-2024-37358
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-20 · CWE-400 · CWE-770
Tags
Published
6 Feb 2025
Updated
16 Jul 2025

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Apache James is vulnerable to denial of service in the protocols-imap package (Maven org.apache.james.protocols:protocols-imap) before 3.7.6 and from 3.8.0 before 3.8.2. Attackers, whether authenticated or unauthenticated, can abuse IMAP literals to cause unbounded memory allocation and very long computations. Upgrade to version 3.7.6 or 3.8.2, which restrict this misuse of IMAP literals.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.6 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (apache)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0088, the 59th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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