CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-21742
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-74
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• apache james mime4j (<= 0.8.9)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/nrqzg93219wdj056pqfszsd33dc54kfy Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/27/5 Mailing List
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/nrqzg93219wdj056pqfszsd33dc54kfy Mailing List, Vendor Advisory