GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-c69w-jj56-834w Improper Certificate Validation and Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch in Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail

HIGH Published 2021-12-16 Modified 2022-01-04 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-44549
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.commons.messaging.mail
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-295, CWE-297
Reviewed
2021-12-15

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.commons.messaging.mail: < 2.0 → fixed in 2.0

Description

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

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-44549 Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail provides a simple layer on top of JavaMail/Jakarta Mail for OSGi to send mails via SMTPS. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
  • CWE-297 Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch weakness

References