Email Manipulation Vulnerability in Apache Commons Email by Apache
CVE-2018-1294

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Apache Commons Email
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 March 2018

Summary

Apache Commons Email is susceptible to manipulation if an application programmer uses unvalidated input for the 'Bounce Address'. This vulnerability allows an attacker to insert line-breaks in the email input, potentially compromising email details, including recipients and content. To address this issue, users are advised to upgrade to Commons-Email 1.5. For those using earlier versions, it is recommended to sanitize inputs by removing any line-break characters from data before passing it to Email.setBounceAddress(String).

Affected Version(s)

Apache Commons Email versions prior to 1.5

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/107
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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