Input validation error in Mime4j - CVE-2024-21742

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Input validation error in Mime4j - CVE-2024-21742

Published: February 28, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU86900
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21742
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to manipulate MIME headers.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when using MIME4J DOM for composing message. A remote attacker can manipulate headers inside a MIME message.


Affected software

Mime4j
DataPower Operations Dashboard
Guardium Data Security Center (GDSC)
Rational Performance Tester
webMethods Managed File Transfer
DevOps Test Performance
IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration
Log Analysis
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM)
Primavera Unifier
openEuler
apache-mime4j-javadoc
apache-mime4j

How to mitigate CVE-2024-21742

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mime4j - update to 0.8.10
DataPower Operations Dashboard - update to 1.0.21.0
Log Analysis - update to 1.3.8
Guardium Data Security Center (GDSC) - update to 3.6.1
DevOps Test Performance - update to 11.0.7
apache-mime4j-javadoc - addressed in versions 0.8.1-2, 0.8.1-3, 0.8.3-2
apache-mime4j - addressed in versions 0.8.1-2, 0.8.1-3, 0.8.3-2
IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration - update to 1.4.7
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.4

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