CVE-2024-37358 — Similarly to CVE-2024-34055, Apache James is vulnerable to denial of service thr

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

01What is this vulnerability?

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

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation	Apache James server	0, 3.8.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2025-02-06T11:22:38.260Z
• Last modified: 2025-09-01T09:40:18.781Z

09References

• lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread/1pxsh11v5s3fkvhnqvkmlqwt3fgpcrqc