Apache James Mime4J: Mime4J DOM header injection (Apache Software Foundation Apache James Mime4J)

CVE-2024-21742

MEDIUM 5.3

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 1.09 % · percentile 65 (2026-11-01)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-02-27 16:21 UTC
Updated: 2025-05-06 13:11 UTC
Assigner: apache
NVD status: Modified

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Description

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-74 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Advisories

GHSA-jw7r-rxff-gv24 — Apache James MIME4J improper input validation vulnerability

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-0666
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-21742

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-0556 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2025-AVI-0969 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2025-AVI-0756 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:apache:james_mime4j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≤ 0.8.9

Affected products

Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation · Apache James Mime4J	affected 0 ≤ 0.8.9

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD