CVE-2018-1294

HIGH

Apache Commons Email < 1.5 - Email Header Injection via Bounce Address

Title source: llm

Description

If a user of Apache Commons Email (typically an application programmer) passes unvalidated input as the so-called "Bounce Address", and that input contains line-breaks, then the email details (recipients, contents, etc.) might be manipulated. Mitigation: Users should upgrade to Commons-Email 1.5. You can mitigate this vulnerability for older versions of Commons Email by stripping line-breaks from data, that will be passed to Email.setBounceAddress(String).

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

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

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0052

EPSS Percentile 67.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (2)

apache/commons_email 1.0 - 1.4

org.apache.commons/commons-email 0 - 1.5Maven

Published Mar 20, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026