CVE-2021-44549

SMTPS server hostname not checked when making TLS connection to SMTPS server

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 14, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Dec 4, 2021

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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

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apache Sling Commons Messaging MailApache Software Foundation
  • Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail 1.0.0 1.0.0Affected

References

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