Medium
Security advisory
The lettre library through 0.10.0-alpha for Rust allows arbitrary sendmail option injection via transport/sendmail/mod.rs.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-28247
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The lettre library through 0.10.0-alpha for Rust allows arbitrary sendmail option injection via transport/sendmail/mod.rs.
osv:CVE-2020-28247
Complete source record
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