CVE-2026-1299: medium-severity vulnerability in Python Software Foundation CPython
email BytesGenerator 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 6epss 0.6%
The
email module, specifically the "BytesGenerator" class, didn’t properly quote newlines for email headers when
serializing an email message allowing for header injection when an email
is serialized. This is only applicable if using "LiteralHeader" writing headers that don't respect email folding rules, the new behavior will reject the incorrectly folded headers in "BytesGenerator".
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/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://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6923https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/052e55e7d44718fe46cbba0ca995cb8fcc359413https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0a925ab591c45d6638f37b5e57796f36fa0e56d8https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7877fe424415bc4a13045e62a90a7277413d8cb9https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/842ce19a0c0b58d61591e8f6a708c38db1fb94e4https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8cdf6204f4ae821f32993f8fc6bad0d318f95f36https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e417f05ad77a4c30ddc07f99e90fc0cef43e831ahttps://github.com/python/cpython/issues/144125https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/144126https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/6ZZULGALJTITEAGEXLDJE2C6FORDXPBT/