CVE-2018-1294
If a user of Apache Commons Email (typically an application programmer) passes unvalidated input as the so-called "Bounce Address", and…
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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).
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)
- 2.8% · top 14% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Insufficient Data Validation
- CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Commons Email
- affected versions prior to 1.5
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.commons:commons-emailGHSA-v7cm-w955-pj6g (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- [oss-security] 20180126 CVE-2018-1294: Apache Commons Email vulnerability information disclosure (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-v7cm-w955-pj6g (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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