Bug 1477540 (CVE-2017-9801)

Summary:	CVE-2017-9801 apache-commons-email: SMTP header injection vulnerabilty
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	java-sig-commits, SpikeFedora
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-08-02 11:12:24 UTC

When a call-site passes a subject for an email that contains line-breaks, the caller can add arbitrary SMTP headers.

This vulnerability can be mitigated for older versions of Commons Email by stripping line-breaks from the subject before passing it to the setSubject(String) method.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/231

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-08-02 11:12:52 UTC

Created apache-commons-email tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1477541]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:19:48 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.