CVE-2004-2650 — Spooler in Apache Foundation James 2.2.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering various error conditions in the retrieve function, which prevents a lock from being released and causes a memory leak

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Spooler in Apache Foundation James 2.2.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering various error conditions in the retrieve function, which prevents a lock from being released and causes a memory leak

Published Dec 9, 2005

4.9

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.56%

Description

Spooler in Apache Foundation James 2.2.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering various error conditions in the retrieve function, which prevents a lock from being released and causes a memory leak.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.56% 0.00561

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00561

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.56% (0.00561)	44.62th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.56% (0.00561)	42.01th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.07% (0.00069)	18.46th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References (5)

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-268
x_refsource_MISC
http://james.apache.org/changelog.html
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15765
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92j7-34x9-f3jw
Advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-2650

Link	Providers	Tags
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-268		x_refsource_MISC
http://james.apache.org/changelog.html		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15765		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-92j7-34x9-f3jw		Advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-2650