Bug 2382381 (CVE-2025-7962)

Summary: CVE-2025-7962 com.sun.mail/jakarta.mail: Jakarta Mail SMTP Injection Vulnerability
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: anstephe, anthomas, ant, anujha, aschwart, asoldano, aszczucz, avibelli, bbaranow, bgeorges, bmaxwell, boliveir, brian.stansberry, bstansbe, cescoffi, clement.escoffier, dandread, darran.lofthouse, dhanak, dkreling, dlofthou, dosoudil, drichtar, drosa, ehelms, eric.wittmann, ewittman, fmariani, fmongiar, ggainey, gmalinko, gsmet, ibek, istudens, ivassile, iweiss, janstey, jmartisk, jnethert, jpasqual, jpoth, jrokos, jsamir, juwatts, jwon, kaycoth, kverlaen, lthon, manderse, mcarlett, mdellweg, mhulan, mnovotny, mosmerov, mposolda, msochure, msvehla, nipatil, nmoumoul, nwallace, olubyans, osousa, pantinor, pberan, pcreech, pdelbell, pesilva, pgallagh, pjindal, pmackay, probinso, rchan, rguimara, rhel-process-autobot, rkubis, rmartinc, rruss, rstancel, rstepani, rsvoboda, sausingh, sbiarozk, sdawley, smaestri, smallamp, ssilvert, sthirugn, sthorger, tcunning, thjenkin, tmalecek, tom.jenkinson, tqvarnst, vdosoudi, vkrizan, vmuzikar, watson-tool-maintainers, yfang
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A flaw was found in com.sun.mail/jakarta.mail. The jakarta.mail component allows an attacker to inject SMTP messages by exploiting improper handling of carriage return and newline characters encoded in UTF-8. An unauthenticated attacker can leverage this vulnerability to send arbitrary SMTP messages. This injection occurs via crafted email content, potentially leading to unauthorized message transmission.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-21 18:01:23 UTC
In Jakarta Mail 2.2 it is possible to preform a SMTP Injection by utilizing theĀ \r and \n UTF-8 characters to separate different messages.