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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2025-7962 json

Jakarta Mail vulnerable to SMTP Injection

published 2025-07-21 15 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-9342-92gg-6v29 , EUVD-2025-22141

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Jakarta Mail versions prior to 2.0.2 it is possible to perform an SMTP Injection by utilizing the \r and \n UTF-8 characters to separate different messages.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.eclipse.angus:smtp 2.0.4
  • maven com.sun.mail:jakarta.mail 1.6.8, 2.0.2
  • eclipse jakarta_mail 1.6.8, 2.0.2
  • eclipse angus_mail 2.0.4
  • ant SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 1.10.18-150200.4.31.3
  • bsf SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 2.4.0-150200.13.8.2
  • qdox SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 2.0.1-150200.3.6.2
  • antlr SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 2.7.7-150200.18.10.2
  • junit5 SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +9 more 5.14.4-150200.3.15.15
  • jdepend SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 2.10-150200.11.6.2
  • picocli SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +9 more 4.7.6-150200.3.19.2
  • zstd-jni SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 1.5.7.16-150200.5.7.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:4677-1SUSE-SU-2025:03025-1

  • ant openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.10.18-160000.1.1
  • ant-antlr openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.10.18-160000.1.1
  • ant-junit openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.10.18-160000.1.1
  • ant-junit5 openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.10.18-160000.1.1
  • ant openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.10.18-1.1
  • javamail openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.6.2-3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21891-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11763-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15378-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-7962 updated cvss 5.3

com.sun.mail/jakarta.mail: Jakarta Mail SMTP Injection Vulnerability

  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3 angus-mail Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 angus-mail Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3 angus-mail Red Hat Build of Keycloak angus-mail Red Hat build of Quarkus angus-mail Red Hat Data Grid 8 angus-mail
    +2 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 angus-mail Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack angus-mail
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Data Grid 8 jakarta.mail Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 jmc Red Hat Fuse 7 jakarta.mail Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 jakarta.mail Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 jakarta.mail Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack jakarta.mail
    +4 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/server-rhel8, devspaces/server-rhel9 Red Hat Process Automation 7 jakarta.mail Red Hat Satellite 6 candlepin, jakarta.mail, candlepin-selinux Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 jakarta.mail
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
15 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
CNA 4.0 6.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.eclipse.angus:smtp
<2.0.4
2.0.4
maven com.sun.mail:jakarta.mail
<1.6.8
>=2.0.0, <2.0.2
1.6.8
2.0.2

Affected products

  • Eclipse Foundation Jakarta Mail

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-147 Improper Neutralization of Input Terminators

References

Sources

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