CRLF Injection Affecting net-imap package, versions <0.4.24>=0.5.0, <0.5.14>=0.6.0, <0.6.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.81% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-NETIMAP-16420123
  • published6 May 2026
  • disclosed4 May 2026
  • creditmanunio

Introduced: 4 May 2026

CVE-2026-42258  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-93  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade net-imap to version 0.4.24, 0.5.14, 0.6.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to CRLF Injection via unvalidated flag arguments in IMAP commands. A user can execute arbitrary IMAP commands by injecting CRLF sequences through crafted Symbol inputs.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1