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CVE-2017-9801
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…
High7.5EPSS 6.0%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.0% · top 6.6% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- SMTP header injection
- CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Commons Email
- affected 1.0 to 1.4
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.commons:commons-emailGHSA-p7vm-phxx-g722 (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- [[email protected]] 20170801 CVE-2017-9801: Apache Commons Email SMTP header injection vulnerabilty (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 1039043 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 100082 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-p7vm-phxx-g722 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .