CVE-2021-40110

CVE-2021-40110: Apache James IMAP vulnerable to a ReDoS

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache James
Published January 4, 2022
Last update August 4, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

Description

In Apache James, using Jazzer fuzzer, we identified that an IMAP user can craft IMAP LIST commands to orchestrate a Denial Of Service using a vulnerable Regular expression. This affected Apache James prior to 3.6.1 We recommend upgrading to Apache James 3.6.1 or higher , which enforce the use of RE2J regular expression engine to execute regex in linear time without back-tracking.

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Disclosure timeline

January 4, 2022 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated