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TI-2018-01198 Aliases CVE-2018-1294GHSA-v7cm-w955-pj6g

Improper input validation in Apache Commons Email

Priority LOW 38CWE-20Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

If a user of Apache Commons Email (typically an application programmer) passes unvalidated input as the so-called "Bounce Address", and that input contains line-breaks, then the email details (recipients, contents, etc.) might be manipulated. Mitigation: Users should upgrade to Commons-Email 1.5. You can mitigate this vulnerability for older versions of Commons Email by stripping line-breaks from data, that will be passed to Email.setBounceAddress(String).

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.02765 86th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Apache Commons Email (Apache Software Foundation): 1.5org.apache.commons:commons-email (Maven): 1.5

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ApacheApache Commons Emailbefore 1.51.5Patch availableCNA
—org.apache.commons:commons-email (Maven)before 1.51.5Patch availableGHSA-v7cm-w955-pj6g
  • Apache Commons Email VendorApache Affected before 1.5 Fixed in 1.5 Patch available CNA
  • org.apache.commons:commons-email (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 1.5 Fixed in 1.5 Patch available GHSA-v7cm-w955-pj6g

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_email:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*1.0 – 1.4VulnerableApache
  • cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_email:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.0 – 1.4 Vulnerable ·Apache

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Apache Commons Email (Apache Software Foundation) Fixed in 1.5
  • Fix · GHSA-v7cm-w955-pj6g org.apache.commons:commons-email (Maven) Fixed in 1.5 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2018-1294
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-v7cm-w955-pj6g

References

Advisory 2

  • TI-2017-07181 Improper input validation in Apache Commons Email CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5

Sources

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