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SCA: security update for org.apache.james:james-server (GHSA-w45j-f5g5-w94x)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419678

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2022-28220)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w45j-f5g5-w94x

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 419678

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28220

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-28220

cwe: CWE-77