Bug 2315808 (CVE-2021-44549)

Summary:	CVE-2021-44549 angus-mail: Enabling Secure Server Identity Checks for Safer SMTPS Communication
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Doc Text:	A vulnerability was found in Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail(angus-mail), which provides a simple interface for sending emails via SMTPS in OSGi, does not offer an option to enable server identity checks, leaving connections vulnerable to "man-in-the-middle" attacks and can allow insecure email communication.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-10-01 01:38:19 UTC

Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail provides a simple layer on top of JavaMail/Jakarta Mail for OSGi to send mails via SMTPS. To reduce the risk of "man in the middle" attacks additional server identity checks must be performed when accessing mail servers. For compatibility reasons these additional checks are disabled by default in JavaMail/Jakarta Mail. The SimpleMailService in Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail 1.0 lacks an option to enable these checks for the shared mail session. A user could enable these checks nevertheless by accessing the session via the message created by SimpleMessageBuilder and setting the property mail.smtps.ssl.checkserveridentity to true. Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail 2.0 adds support for enabling server identity checks and these checks are enabled by default. - https://javaee.github.io/javamail/docs/SSLNOTES.txt - https://javaee.github.io/javamail/docs/api/com/sun/mail/smtp/package-summary.html - https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/mail/issues/429