Apache James vulnerable to denial of service through JMAP HTML to text conversion
Date: 2025-02
Affected: maven/org.apache.james:james-server-jmap-draft, maven/org.apache.james:james-server-jmap-draft
Attack vector: dos
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2024-45626
CWE: CWE-400
CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Apache James server JMAP HTML to text plain implementation in versions below 3.8.2 and 3.7.6 is subject to unbounded memory consumption that can result in a denial of service. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.7.6 and 3.8.2, which fix this issue.


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