FKIE_CVE-2025-11468

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-20 22:15 - Updated: 2026-01-20 23:16
Severity ?
5.7 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
When folding a long comment in an email header containing exclusively unfoldable characters, the parenthesis would not be preserved. This could be used for injecting headers into email messages where addresses are user-controlled and not sanitized.
References
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/17d1490aa97bd6b98a42b1a9b324ead84e7fd8a2
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/issues/143935
cna@python.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/pull/143936
cna@python.orghttps://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/FELSEOLBI2QR6YLG6Q7VYF7FWSGQTKLI/
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  "lastModified": "2026-01-20T23:16:05.123",
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