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SCA: security update for org.apache.commons:commons-email (GHSA-v7cm-w955-pj6g)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419155

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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). (CVE-2018-1294)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v7cm-w955-pj6g

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 419155

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1294

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1294

cwe: CWE-20