PT-2018-11495 · Apache · Apache Commons Email

Alexander Lehmann · Published 2018-02-24 · Updated 2022-05-14 · CVE-2018-1294

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache Commons Email versions prior to 1.5

Description The issue allows manipulation of email details, such as recipients and contents, if unvalidated input containing line-breaks is passed as the "Bounce Address".

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.5, strip line-breaks from data passed to Email.setBounceAddress(String) as a mitigation measure. Upgrade to Commons-Email 1.5 to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-1294

GHSA-V7CM-W955-PJ6G

MGASA-2018-0136

Affected Products

Apache Commons Email

References · 12

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1294 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1294 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1294 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-v7cm-w955-pj6g · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0136 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/6BK3RDWBGNZHZ6LDJ34DAWVCBE2UGUE3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1294 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0136.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1294 · Vendor Advisory
• https://marc.info/?i=CAF8HOZ+J3NkaywfbHuQpHxK9ZXeT4=[e-mail] · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22473 · Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/107 · Note