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CVE-2022-22931 (GCVE-0-2022-22931)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-07 18:50 – Updated: 2024-08-03 03:28
VLAI
Title
Path traversal in Apache James 3.6.1
Summary
Fix of CVE-2021-40525 do not prepend delimiters upon valid directory validations. Affected implementations include: - maildir mailbox store - Sieve file repository This enables a user to access other users data stores (limited to user names being prefixed by the value of the username being used).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache James Affected: Apache James 3.6.1
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Credits
These issues were discovered and reported by GHSL team member Jaroslav Lobačevski
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