Bug 2266612 (CVE-2024-21742)

Summary:	CVE-2024-21742 : Apache James Mime4J: Mime4J DOM header injection
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marco Benatto <mbenatto>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Description Marco Benatto 2024-02-28 14:30:48 UTC

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.

https://lists.apache.org/thread/nrqzg93219wdj056pqfszsd33dc54kfy

Comment 1 Marco Benatto 2024-02-28 15:13:42 UTC

Created apache-james-project tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2266622]