CVE-2021-44549

CVE-2021-44549: SMTPS server hostname not checked when making TLS connection to SMTPS server

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail
Weakness CWE-295
Published December 14, 2021
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail provides a simple layer on top of JavaMail/Jakarta Mail for OSGi to send mails via SMTPS. To reduce the risk of "man in the middle" attacks additional server identity checks must be performed when accessing mail servers. For compatibility reasons these additional checks are disabled by default in JavaMail/Jakarta Mail. The SimpleMailService in Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail 1.0 lacks an option to enable these checks for the shared mail session. A user could enable these checks nevertheless by accessing the session via the message created by SimpleMessageBuilder and setting the property mail.smtps.ssl.checkserveridentity to true. Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail 2.0 adds support for enabling server identity checks and these checks are enabled by default. - https://javaee.github.io/javamail/docs/SSLNOTES.txt - https://javaee.github.io/javamail/docs/api/com/sun/mail/smtp/package-summary.html - https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/mail/issues/429

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 14, 2021 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated