#VU114346 Command Injection in Jakarta Mail - CVE-2025-7962

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#VU114346 Command Injection in Jakarta Mail - CVE-2025-7962

Published: August 21, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU114346
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-7962
CWE-ID: CWE-77
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Jakarta Mail
Software vendor:
Eclipse

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SMTP commands on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when handling CR-LF characters in UTF-8 encoding. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and execute arbitrary SMTP commands on the server.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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