CVE-2026-33454

The Camel-Mail component is vulnerable to Camel message header injection. The custom header filter strategy used by the component (MailHeaderFilterStrategy) only filters the 'out' direction via setOutFilterStartsWith, while it does not configure the 'in' direction via setInFilterStartsWith. As a result, when a Camel application consumes mail through camel-mail (for example via from(\"imap://...\") or from(\"pop3://...\")) the inbound filter check is skipped and Camel-prefixed MIME headers are mapped unfiltered into the Exchange. An attacker who can deliver an email to a mailbox monitored by such a consumer can inject Camel-specific headers that, for some Camel components downstream of the mail consumer (such as camel-bean, camel-exec, or camel-sql), can alter the behaviour of the route. This is the same pattern that was previously addressed in camel-undertow (CVE-2025-30177) and the broader incoming-header filter (CVE-2025-27636 and CVE-2025-29891). This issue affects Apache Camel: from 3.0.0 before 4.14.6, from 4.15.0 before 4.18.1. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.19.0, which fixes the issue. If users are on the 4.18.x LTS releases stream, then they are suggested to upgrade to 4.18.1. If users are on the 4.14.x LTS releases stream, then they are suggested to upgrade to 4.14.6.
References
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:apache:camel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:camel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

28 Apr 2026, 19:42

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CPE cpe:2.3:a:apache:camel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Apache
Apache camel
References () https://camel.apache.org/security/CVE-2026-33454.html - () https://camel.apache.org/security/CVE-2026-33454.html - Vendor Advisory

27 Apr 2026, 16:16

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CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 9.4

27 Apr 2026, 10:16

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-04-27 10:16

Updated : 2026-04-28 19:42


NVD link : CVE-2026-33454

Mitre link : CVE-2026-33454

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-33454


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Products Affected

apache

  • camel
CWE
CWE-502

Deserialization of Untrusted Data