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CVE-2018-1294
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2018-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-20
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 products
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons Email: from 1.0 through 1.4
References
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