CVE-2024-6923mediumCWE-94

CVE-2024-6923: medium-severity vulnerability in Python Software Foundation CPython

Email header injection due to unquoted newlines

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.5epss 1.1%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected products
Python Software Foundation · CPython
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