RHSA-2026:4463 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for python3.12 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems.

Security Fix(es):

• cpython: wsgiref.headers.Headers allows header newline injection in Python (CVE-2026-0865)
• cpython: IMAP command injection in user-controlled commands (CVE-2025-15366)
• cpython: POP3 command injection in user-controlled commands (CVE-2025-15367)
• cpython: email header injection due to unquoted newlines (CVE-2026-1299)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2431367 - CVE-2026-0865 cpython: wsgiref.headers.Headers allows header newline injection in Python
• BZ - 2431368 - CVE-2025-15366 cpython: IMAP command injection in user-controlled commands
• BZ - 2431373 - CVE-2025-15367 cpython: POP3 command injection in user-controlled commands
• BZ - 2432437 - CVE-2026-1299 cpython: email header injection due to unquoted newlines

CVEs

• CVE-2025-15366
• CVE-2025-15367
• CVE-2026-0865
• CVE-2026-1299

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate