CVE-2017-9801 (GCVE-0-2017-9801)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-08-07 15:00
Modified
2024-09-16 19:05
Severity ?
CWE
  • SMTP header injection
Summary
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.
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Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache Commons Email Version: 1.0 to 1.4
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