CVE-2017-9801: SMTP header injection vulnerabilty

August 7, 2017 (updated August 9, 2017)

When a call-site passes a subject for an email that contains line-breaks, the caller can add arbitrary SMTP headers.

References

commons.apache.org/proper/commons-email/security-reports.html
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9801
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9801

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