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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-45626

High
7.5/10

Summary

Apache James server JMAP HTML to text plain implementation in affected versions is subject to unbounded memory consumption that can result in a Denial of Service (DoS). This issue affects org.apache.james:james-server-jmap package versions 3.0.0 through 3.4.0 and org.apache.james:james-server-jmap-draft package versions prior to 3.5.0 through 3.7.5, and 3.8.0 through 3.8.1.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published