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CVE-2025-11468

Updated on 20 Jan 2026

Severity

5.7 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.7
CVSS vector
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Alpine Linux 3.22 , Alpine Linux 3.23 , Debian 10 , Debian 11 , Debian 12 , Debian 13 , EL 10 , EL 7 , EL 8 , EL 9 , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS , Ubuntu 22.04 , Ubuntu 24.04
Affected packages:
python3.11 @ 3.11.2 (+64 more)
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.

Fixes