cve-2024-21742
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 16:21
Modified
2025-02-13 17:33
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
security@apache.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/27/5Mailing List
security@apache.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread/nrqzg93219wdj056pqfszsd33dc54kfyMailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/27/5Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread/nrqzg93219wdj056pqfszsd33dc54kfyMailing List, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache James Mime4J Version: 0
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