CVE-2017-12628
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
7.8
Description
Apache James Privilege Escalation
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.james:james-project | <3.0.1 | 3.0.1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | james_server | {"endIncluding":"3.0.0"} | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101532
- https://www.mail-archive.com/server-user%40james.apache.org/msg15633.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12628
- https://github.com/apache/james-project
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210124113233/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101532
- https://www.mail-archive.com/server-user@james.apache.org/msg15633.html
CWEs
CWE-502
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.