CVE-2024-6923 (GCVE-0-2024-6923)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-08-01 13:40
Modified
2025-11-03 22:32
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
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.
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Python Software Foundation CPython Version: 0
Version: 3.9.0
Version: 3.10.0
Version: 3.11.0
Version: 3.12.0
Version: 3.13.0a1
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