CVE-2022-28220

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2022-28220

    CVE-2022-28220

    Published: 8 Sept 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: STARTTLS command injection in Apache JAMES

    Details: 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.

    References: https://james.apache.org/james/update/2022/08/26/james-3.7.1.html, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/28xxx/CVE-2022-28220.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28220, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/20/1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.7.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2022-28220 | CVE-DB