CVE-2025-11468: medium-severity vulnerability in Python Software Foundation CPython
Folding email comments of unfoldable characters doesn't preserve parenthesis
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.7epss 0.6%
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.
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
Affected products
Python Software Foundation · CPythonRelated CVEs — Python Software Foundation CPython
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References
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/003b8315669b9f08b1010a49071f73f15f818094https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/17d1490aa97bd6b98a42b1a9b324ead84e7fd8a2https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/61614a5e5056e4f61ced65008d4576f3df34acb6https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a76e4cd62dd68e7cbe86e37e6ed988495a646b66https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e9970f077240c7c670e8a6fc6662f2b30d3b6ad0https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f738386838021c762efea6c9802c82de65e87796https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/143935https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/143936https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/FELSEOLBI2QR6YLG6Q7VYF7FWSGQTKLI/