CVE-2024-21742

Apache James Mime4J: Mime4J DOM header injection

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Feb 27, 2024
Updated: May 6, 2025
Reserved: Jan 2, 2024

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache James Mime4JApache Software Foundation	0.8.9 and earlierAffected

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/nrqzg93219wdj056pqfszsd33dc54kfyvendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/27/5

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