CVE-2018-1294

Publication date 20 March 2018

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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).

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
commons-email	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

msalvatore

"version 1.5 is not affected"

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N