CVE-2024-21742 (GCVE-0-2024-21742)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 16:21
Modified
2025-05-06 13:11
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-74 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
Summary
Improper input validation allows for header injection in MIME4J library when using MIME4J DOM for composing message. This can be exploited by an attacker to add unintended headers to MIME messages.
References
Impacted products
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Apache Software Foundation Apache James Mime4J Version: 0
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