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CVE-2017-9801

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
07/08/2017
Last modified:
20/04/2025

Description

When a call-site passes a subject for an email that contains line-breaks in Apache Commons Email 1.0 through 1.4, the caller can add arbitrary SMTP headers.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_email:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_email:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_email:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_email:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_email:1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_email:1.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_email:1.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_email:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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