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CVE-2024-6923

Published: Aug 1, 2024

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

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Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Python Software Foundation	CPython	affected `0 - < 3.8.20` affected `3.9.0 - < 3.9.20` affected `3.10.0 - < 3.10.15` affected `3.11.0 - < 3.11.10` affected `3.12.0 - < 3.12.5` +1 more versions

References

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/122233

patch

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/121650

issue-tracking

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/QH3BUOE2DYQBWP7NAQ7UNHPPOELKISRW/

vendor-advisory

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4766d1200fdf8b6728137aa2927a297e224d5fa7

patch

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4aaa4259b5a6e664b7316a4d60bdec7ee0f124d0

patch

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/06f28dc236708f72871c64d4bc4b4ea144c50147

patch

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b158a76ce094897c870fb6b3de62887b7ccc33f1

patch

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f7be505d137a22528cb0fc004422c0081d5d90e6

patch

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f7c0f09e69e950cf3c5ada9dbde93898eb975533

patch

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/097633981879b3c9de9a1dd120d3aa585ecc2384

patch

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