CVE-2026-0864 (GCVE-0-2026-0864)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-23 17:42 – Updated: 2026-08-13 00:29
VLAI
Title
Configuration Injection via Carriage Return (\r) in write() method
Summary
When using the "configparser" module to write configuration files containing multi-line text values with carriage return characters (\r) the resulting file could be injected with unexpected keys and values if the attacker controls the written value.
Severity
4.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-23 18:34 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-74 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.10.21 (python)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.16 (python)
Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.14 (python)
Affected: 3.13.0 , < 3.13.15 (python)
Affected: 3.14.0 , < 3.14.7 (python)
Affected: 3.15.0a1 , < 3.15.0b4 (python)
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Credits
D0n9 (https://github.com/D0n9) Petr Viktorin (https://github.com/encukou) Seth Larson (https://github.com/sethmlarson)
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