[LOG4J2-2819] Add support for specifying an SSL configuration for SmtpAppender

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.13.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.13.2, 2.12.3, 2.3.2
• Component/s: Appenders
• Assignee: Matt Sicker
• Reporter: Matt Sicker
• Created: 13/Apr/20 20:43
• Updated: 27/Dec/21 23:04
• Resolved: 21/Apr/20 23:11

Description

The SmtpAppender should be able to use an SSL configuration element to specify a trust store, host name verification, and a key store, so that smtps connections can be further configured. This should re-use the same <SSL/> configuration element that's used elsewhere like HttpAppender.

CVE-2020-9488

The SmtpAppender did not verify the host name matched the SSL/TLS certificate of an SMTPS connection which could allow an attacker with man-in-the-middle access to intercept log messages sent through SMTPS.

Mitigation

Upgrade to 2.13.2 which supports this feature. Previous versions can set the system property mail.smtp.ssl.checkserveridentity to true to globally enable hostname verification for SMTPS connections.

Details

CWE: 297
CVSS: 3.7 (Low) CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Reporter: Peter Stöckli <[e-mail]>

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #626