CVE catalog

CVE-2018-1294

commons-email: CVE-2018-1294

Severity: Medium · CVSS 5.4CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Published: Jan 26, 2018, 12:00:00 AM UTC
Source: [NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS: 2.77% · Oct 25, 2026

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).

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

Distribution	Package	Release	Version	Status
Debian	commons-email	sid	`1.6.0-1`	not affected
Debian	commons-email	forky	`1.6.0-1`	not affected
Debian	commons-email	trixie	`1.5-3`	not affected
Debian	commons-email	bookworm	`1.5-3`	not affected

Fixed-version evidence

Distribution	Package	Type	Release	Fixed version	Urgency	Origin	Bugs
Debian	commons-email	source	sid	`Not affected`	unimportant	Not reported	Not reported
Debian	commons-email	source	forky	`Not affected`	unimportant	Not reported	Not reported
Debian	commons-email	source	trixie	`Not affected`	unimportant	Not reported	Not reported
Debian	commons-email	source	bookworm	`Not affected`	unimportant	Not reported	Not reported

OpenFactory catalog packages

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

[libcommons-email-java]Not affected
Source package: [commons-email]
Details (2)
- 1.5-3 · all · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · commons-email · debian · bookworm
- 1.5-3 · all · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · commons-email · debian · bookworm

Observed: Oct 23, 2026, 5:34:26 PM UTC

References

[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX]