CVE-2024-37358 HIGH

CVE-2024-37358: Apache James: denial of service through the use of IMAP literals

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache James server
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published February 6, 2025
Last update September 1, 2025
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CVSS base score

8.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

Description

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.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

February 6, 2025 CVE published
September 1, 2025 Record updated