CVE-2022-22931

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.018 · 78 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

1.76% (78th) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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).

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9

v3.14.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 1.4

v3.14.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

shoucheng3/asf__james-project_CVE-2022-22931_3-6-0shoucheng3/asf__james-project_CVE-2022-22931_3-6-0PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache James≤ Apache James 3.6.1enisa_euvdEU
apache james= 3.6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:james:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.james:james-server< 3.6.2osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.james/james-server

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-v84g-cf5j-xjqxPath Traversal in Apache James Server2022-02-08ghsa · osvUS
Apache James Server prior to version 3.6.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability. The fix for CVE-2021-40525 does 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).

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-02-07modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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