CVE-2026-1299
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.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.54%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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
- 6.0 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.54% probability · 44th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-93
- Source
- cna@python.org
References
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6923
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/052e55e7d44718fe46cbba0ca995cb8fcc359413
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0a925ab591c45d6638f37b5e57796f36fa0e56d8
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7877fe424415bc4a13045e62a90a7277413d8cb9
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/842ce19a0c0b58d61591e8f6a708c38db1fb94e4
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8cdf6204f4ae821f32993f8fc6bad0d318f95f36
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e417f05ad77a4c30ddc07f99e90fc0cef43e831a
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/144125
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/144126
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/6ZZULGALJTITEAGEXLDJE2C6FORDXPBT/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.