OpenIdentityPlatform OpenAM up to 16.1.2 Email Notification subject/message injection

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in OpenIdentityPlatform OpenAM up to 16.1.2. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Email Notification. The manipulation of the argument subject/message results in injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-105117. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in OpenIdentityPlatform OpenAM up to 16.1.2. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown functionality of the component Email Notification. The manipulation of the argument subject/message with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

OpenAM before 16.1.3 contains an email content injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to control notification email wording via the forgotPassword and register actions on /json/{realm}/users. Attackers can supply subject and message fields to send phishing mail from the organisation's configured From address, or abuse register as a relay to arbitrary recipients.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-105117 since 10/03/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1055 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 16.1.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• OpenIdentityPlatform

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• OpenAM

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• 16.1.0
• 16.1.1
• 16.1.2

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• Product: https://github.com/OpenIdentityPlatform/OpenAM/

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