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CVE-2018-1294

N/A
Published: March 20, 2018 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:50 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCommons Email

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

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).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Commons Email· Apache
95%
v < 1.51.0 ≤ v ≤ 1.4
Affected range stops below 1.5, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTMitigationThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/107

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20

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