CVE-2021-38542 | HackTesting

Apache James prior to release 3.6.1 is vulnerable to a buffering attack relying on the use of the STARTTLS command. This can result in Man-in -the-middle command injection attacks, leading potentially to leakage of sensible information.

Credits

We thanks Benoit Tellier, Raphael Ouazana for reporting this vulnerability as well as Damian Poddebniak, Fabian Ising, Hanno Böck, and Sebastian Schinzel Münster University of Applied Science for their research and tools regarding STARTTLS security.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/04/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/04/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/20/1