Bug 2527048 (CVE-2026-63435) - CVE-2026-63435 mail: Mail: Email address spoofing via malformed RFC 2047 encoded-words
Summary: CVE-2026-63435 mail: Mail: Email address spoofing via malformed RFC 2047 enco...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-63435
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-01 20:21 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-04 06:40 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-01 20:21:15 UTC
Mail is an internet library for Ruby designed to handle email generation, parsing, and sending. Prior to 2.9.1, Mail::Utilities.q_value_decode and Mail::Utilities.b_value_decode used a single String#match and an overly greedy charset capture to decode only the first RFC 2047 encoded-word and mishandle surrounding or subsequent text. A crafted malformed encoded-word in an address display name or local part could cross ? delimiters and make decoded From, To, or Reply-To header values differ from the raw values inspected by a human reviewer or downstream parser, enabling apparent sender or recipient spoofing, phishing, or authorization-check bypass. This issue is fixed in version 2.9.1.


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