CVE-2024-6923
Email header injection due to unquoted newlines
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Description
There is a MEDIUM severity vulnerability affecting CPython. The email module didn’t properly quote newlines for email headers when serializing an email message allowing for header injection when an email is serialized.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/06f28dc236708f72871c64d4bc4b4ea144c50147
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/097633981879b3c9de9a1dd120d3aa585ecc2384
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4766d1200fdf8b6728137aa2927a297e224d5fa7
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4aaa4259b5a6e664b7316a4d60bdec7ee0f124d0
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b158a76ce094897c870fb6b3de62887b7ccc33f1
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CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- LOW
- Integrity
- LOW
- Availability
- LOW
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