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[3.12] gh-121284: Fix email address header folding with parsed encoded-word (GH-122754) by miss-islington · Pull Request #131404 · python/cpython · GitHub
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@miss-islington miss-islington commented Mar 18, 2025

Email generators using email.policy.default may convert an RFC 2047
encoded-word to unencoded form during header refolding. In a structured
header, this could allow 'specials' chars outside a quoted-string,
leading to invalid address headers and enabling spoofing. This change
ensures a parsed encoded-word that contains specials is kept as an
encoded-word while the header is refolded.

[Better fix from @bitdancer.]


(cherry picked from commit 295b53d)

Co-authored-by: Mike Edmunds medmunds@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: R David Murray rdmurray@bitdance.com
Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin encukou@gmail.com

…-word (pythonGH-122754)

Email generators using email.policy.default may convert an RFC 2047
encoded-word to unencoded form during header refolding. In a structured
header, this could allow 'specials' chars outside a quoted-string,
leading to invalid address headers and enabling spoofing. This change
ensures a parsed encoded-word that contains specials is kept as an
encoded-word while the header is refolded.

[Better fix from @bitdancer.]

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(cherry picked from commit 295b53d)

Co-authored-by: Mike Edmunds <medmunds@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
@miss-islington miss-islington requested a review from a team as a code owner March 18, 2025 11:07
@bitdancer bitdancer merged commit 5dfb5e6 into python:3.12 Mar 18, 2025
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