Email header injection via decoded newline serialization
Published Aug 1, 2024 · Updated Nov 3, 2025
Header injection in affected CPython releases allows remote authenticated users to alter serialized email structure through encoded newlines. The email header parser decodes a quoted newline into the value, while the generator writes that newline without re-encoding it or rejecting the malformed fold. Applications must parse attacker-controlled encoded headers and then serialize them; injected boundaries can add headers or move following headers into the body.
Summary
What happened
Header injection in affected CPython releases allows remote authenticated users to alter serialized email structure through encoded newlines. The email header parser decodes a quoted newline into the value, while the generator writes that newline without re-encoding it or rejecting the malformed fold. Applications must parse attacker-controlled encoded headers and then serialize them; injected boundaries can add headers or move following headers into the body.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-6923
- Published
- Aug 1, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Vendor
- Python Software Foundation
- Product
- CPython
- Classifications
- CWE-94
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 1, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 3, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=3.13.0rc2
- Affected versionversion=0 <3.8.20
- Affected versionversion=3.10.0 <3.10.15
- Affected versionversion=3.11.0 <3.11.10
- Affected versionversion=3.12.0 <3.12.5
- Affected versionversion=3.13.0a1 <3.13.0rc2
- Affected versionversion=3.9.0 <3.9.20
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Upstream encoded-newline reproductionproof of concept · demonstrated
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