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CVE-2017-12628 Apache James Privilege Escalation

HighCVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.76%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

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 products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) < 3.0.1 3.0.1
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 1.1 No fix listed
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 1.2 No fix listed
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 1.3 No fix listed
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 1.5 No fix listed
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 1.6 No fix listed
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 1.7 No fix listed
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 1.8 No fix listed
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 1.8.1 No fix listed
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 1.8.2 No fix listed
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 3.0.0 No fix listed
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 3.0.0-RC1 No fix listed
org.apache.james/james-project(Maven) = 3.0.0-beta5 No fix listed
apache james server <= 3.0.0 No fix listed
Apache James = 3.0.0 No fix listed

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