CVE-2024-6923 (GCVE-0-2024-6923)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-01 13:40 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:32
VLAI
Title
Email header injection due to unquoted newlines
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-01 18:15 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.8.20 (python)
Affected: 3.9.0 , < 3.9.20 (python)
Affected: 3.10.0 , < 3.10.15 (python)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.10 (python)
Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.5 (python)
Affected: 3.13.0a1 , < 3.13.0rc2 (python)
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python cpython Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.13.0rc2 (python)
    cpe:2.3:a:python:cpython:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Petr Viktorin Seth Larson John Whitlock Bas Bloemsaat
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