FKIE_CVE-2024-6923

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-08-01 14:15 - Updated: 2025-11-03 23:17
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
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.
References
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/06f28dc236708f72871c64d4bc4b4ea144c50147
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/097633981879b3c9de9a1dd120d3aa585ecc2384
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4766d1200fdf8b6728137aa2927a297e224d5fa7
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4aaa4259b5a6e664b7316a4d60bdec7ee0f124d0
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b158a76ce094897c870fb6b3de62887b7ccc33f1
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f7be505d137a22528cb0fc004422c0081d5d90e6
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f7c0f09e69e950cf3c5ada9dbde93898eb975533
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121650
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/pull/122233
cna@python.orghttps://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/QH3BUOE2DYQBWP7NAQ7UNHPPOELKISRW/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/08/01/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/08/02/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00005.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240926-0003/
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  "lastModified": "2025-11-03T23:17:31.307",
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