CVE-2026-0864 (GCVE-0-2026-0864)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-23 17:42 – Updated: 2026-06-24 12:55
VLAI
Title
Configuration Injection via Carriage Return (\r) in write() method
Summary
When using the "configparser" module to write configuration files containing multi-line text values with carriage return characters (\r) the resulting file could be injected with unexpected keys and values if the attacker controls the written value.
Severity
4.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/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-74 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
Assigner
PSF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Python Software Foundation CPython Affected: 0 , < 3.15.0 (python)
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Credits
D0n9 (https://github.com/D0n9) Petr Viktorin (https://github.com/encukou) Seth Larson (https://github.com/sethmlarson)
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