CVE-2024-6923

Impact

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.

Affected packages

This record carries no package version data, so it cannot be matched against a dependency list automatically. Read the advisory and compare your version by hand.

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/06f28dc236708f72871c64d4bc4b4ea144c50147
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/097633981879b3c9de9a1dd120d3aa585ecc2384
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4766d1200fdf8b6728137aa2927a297e224d5fa7
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4aaa4259b5a6e664b7316a4d60bdec7ee0f124d0
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b158a76ce094897c870fb6b3de62887b7ccc33f1
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f7be505d137a22528cb0fc004422c0081d5d90e6
• https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f7c0f09e69e950cf3c5ada9dbde93898eb975533
• https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121650
• https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/122233
• https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/QH3BUOE2DYQBWP7NAQ7UNHPPOELKISRW/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/08/01/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/08/02/2
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00000.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00005.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240926-0003/