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CVE-2026-121946

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Description

zbateson mail-mime-parser before 3.0.9 and 4.x before 4.0.6 contains a CRLF header injection vulnerability in message-building helpers that fail to strip CR and LF characters. Attackers supplying crafted MIME type, charset, encoding, micalg, or protocol values can inject extra header lines such as a forged Bcc into outgoing messages.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.9 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-11-04 13:17:29.477000
Last modified
2026-11-04 13:17:29.477000
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  "id": "CVE-2026-121946",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-11-04T13:17:29.477",
  "lastModified": "2026-11-04T13:17:29.477",
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    }
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          "packageURL": "pkg:composer/zbateson/mail-mime-parser",
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      "url": "https://github.com/zbateson/mail-mime-parser/blob/4.0.5/src/Message/Helper/MultipartHelper.php#L270-L273",
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}