CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12628

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-10-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-10-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-502

Description

The JMX server embedded in Apache James, also used by the command line client is exposed to a java de-serialization issue, and thus can be used to execute arbitrary commands. As James exposes JMX socket by default only on local-host, this vulnerability can only be used for privilege escalation. Release 3.0.1 upgrades the incriminated library.

Affected configurations

• apache james server (<= 3.0.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness

References