CVE-2025-11468 (GCVE-0-2025-11468)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-20 21:09 – Updated: 2026-03-03 14:41
VLAI
Title
Folding email comments of unfoldable characters doesn't preserve parenthesis
Summary
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.
Severity
5.7 (Medium)
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-93 - Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')
Assigner
PSF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.10.20 (python)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.15 (python)
Affected: 3.12.0 , < 3.12.13 (python)
Affected: 3.13.0 , < 3.13.12 (python)
Affected: 3.14.0 , < 3.14.3 (python)
Affected: 3.15.0a1 , < 3.15.0a6 (python)
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Credits
Denis Ledoux Seth Larson Denis Ledoux R. David Murray
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