CVE-2026-121946
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
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
View original CVE JSON
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"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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"source": "[email protected]",
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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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