CVE-2021-44549

HIGH

Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail < 2.0 - Improper Certificate Validation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail provides a simple layer on top of JavaMail/Jakarta Mail for OSGi to send mails via SMTPS. To reduce the risk of "man in the middle" attacks additional server identity checks must be performed when accessing mail servers. For compatibility reasons these additional checks are disabled by default in JavaMail/Jakarta Mail. The SimpleMailService in Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail 1.0 lacks an option to enable these checks for the shared mail session. A user could enable these checks nevertheless by accessing the session via the message created by SimpleMessageBuilder and setting the property mail.smtps.ssl.checkserveridentity to true. Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail 2.0 adds support for enabling server identity checks and these checks are enabled by default. - https://javaee.github.io/javamail/docs/SSLNOTES.txt - https://javaee.github.io/javamail/docs/api/com/sun/mail/smtp/package-summary.html - https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/mail/issues/429

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Mailing List, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://lists.apache.org/thread/l8p9h2bqvkj6rhv4w8kzctb817415b7f

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 39.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-295
Status published
Products (2)
apache/sling_commons_messaging_mail 1.0.0
org.apache.sling/org.apache.sling.commons.messaging.mail 0 - 2.0Maven
Published Dec 14, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026