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…
CVE-2026-121946
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.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.9 (v4.0)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 4 November 2026
- Last updated
- 4 November 2026
- Affected
- zbateson · mail-mime-parser
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/zbateson/mail-mime-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-gmgm-r6fh-fq6g
- https://github.com/zbateson/mail-mime-parser/commit/f385b2923023a9a7b69003468e363a4661f1c85a
- https://github.com/zbateson/mail-mime-parser/commit/1fa840ef367958e991e6840b4e3ffd41aca9d147
- https://github.com/zbateson/mail-mime-parser/commit/c31c62ccc3e66a7a7da0d79954ef83807f9daa20
- https://github.com/zbateson/mail-mime-parser/commit/b032920875c6cb35bb2ddd7abfd7e98608d75bc0
- https://github.com/zbateson/mail-mime-parser/blob/4.0.5/src/Message/Helper/MultipartHelper.php#L270-L273
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/zbateson-mail-mime-parser-before-3.0.9-and-4-x-before-4.0.6-crlf-header-injection-via-message-builders
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