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CVE-2026-0864

Configuration Injection via Carriage Return (\r) in write() method

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 3.10.21, 3.11.16, 3.12.14, 3.13.15, 3.14.7, and 1 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

When using the "configparser" module to write configuration files containing multi-line text values with carriage return characters (\r) the resulting file could be injected with unexpected keys and values if the attacker controls the written value.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Python Software Foundation CPython

    fixed in 3.10.21; From 3.11.0 · fixed in 3.11.16; From 3.12.0 · fixed in 3.12.14; From 3.13.0 · fixed in 3.13.15; From 3.14.0 · fixed in 3.14.7; From 3.15.0a1 · fixed in 3.15.0b4

References 10

GitHub · python/cpython

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