Apache Commons Email Bounce Address Manipulation Vulnerability

CVE-2018-1294 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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).

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