An issue was discovered in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.5.7, 3.6.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x through 3.7.4. The email module wrongly parses email addresses that contain multiple @ characters. An application that uses the email module and implements some kind of checks on the From/To headers of a message could be tricked into accepting an email address that should be denied. An attack may be the same as in CVE-2019-11340; however, this CVE applies to Python more generally.
CVE-2019-16056
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 40EG Risk 40/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation5% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 5.4%
- EPSS %ILE
- 92nd
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
September 6, 2019
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (68)
- cve@mitrehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00062.html
- cve@mitrehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00063.html
- cve@mitrehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00012.html
- cve@mitrehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00021.html
- cve@mitrehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html
- cve@mitrehttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3725
- cve@mitrehttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3948
- cve@mitrehttps://bugs.python.org/issue34155
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8cb65d1381b027f0b09ee36bfed7f35bb4dec9a9
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00018.html
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00019.html
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00011.html
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00034.html
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4X3HW5JRZ7GCPSR7UHJOLD7AWLTQCDVR/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2019-16056(4)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2020:1605Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: python27:2.7 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHBA-2020:1539Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5.6-1 - RHEL7 Container
- RHBA-2020:1540Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6.4-1 - RHEL7 Container
- RHSA-2019:3725Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-python36-python security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Patch Availability(12)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | python3.11-venv (3.11.0~rc1-1~22.04.1~esm1) @ jammy | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | python3.5-venv (3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.9) @ xenial | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | libpython3.4 (3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm4) @ trusty | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| redhat | python-0:2.7.5-87.el7_7 | 2020-06-12 | redhat |
| redhat | python27:2.7-8020020200117110429.90f98d4f | 2020-04-28 | redhat |
| redhat | python3-0:3.6.8-23.el8 | 2020-04-28 | redhat |
| redhat | ansible-tower-36/ansible-tower:3.6.4-1 | 2020-04-22 | redhat |
| redhat | ansible-tower-35/ansible-tower:3.5.6-1 | 2020-04-22 | redhat |
| redhat | python-0:2.7.5-88.el7 | 2020-03-31 | redhat |
| redhat | python3-0:3.6.8-13.el7 | 2020-03-31 | redhat |
| redhat | python27-python-0:2.7.17-2.el7 | 2019-11-25 | redhat |
| redhat | rh-python36-python-0:3.6.9-2.el7 | 2019-11-06 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(25 across 21 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.11(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python2 | — |
| — |
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.12(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python2 | — |
| — |
| python3 | — |
| — |
Debian:8(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python2.7 | 2.7.9-2, 2.7.9-2+deb8u1, 2.7.9-2+deb8u2, 2.7.9-2+deb8u3, 2.7.9-2+deb8u4 |
| — |
| python3.4 | 3.4.2-1 ... 3.4.2-1+deb8u6 (7 versions) |
| — |
Debian:9(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python2.7 | 2.7.13-2, 2.7.13-2+deb9u1, 2.7.13-2+deb9u2, 2.7.13-2+deb9u3 |
| — |
| python3.5 | 3.5.3-1, 3.5.3-1+deb9u1 |
| — |
Alpine:v3.10(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.13(1)
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|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.14(1)
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|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.15(1)
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| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.16(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.17(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.18(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.19(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.20(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.21(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.22(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.23(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.24(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.7(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.8(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python3 | — |
| — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python2.7 | — |
| — |
Additional Vendor Advisories
(8)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2019:3948MODERATE2018-07-19
RHSA-2019:3948 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:1131MODERATE2018-07-19
RHSA-2020:1131 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:1132MODERATE2018-07-19
RHSA-2020:1132 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:1764MODERATE2018-07-19
RHSA-2020:1764 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:2520MODERATE2018-07-19
RHSA-2020:2520 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-4151-1MEDIUM
Python vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-4151-2MEDIUM
Python vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6891-1MEDIUM
Python vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 4× in last 7d / 22× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 154 total refreshes for this CVE.
- 2026-10-05 17:39 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-09-30 10:13 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-09-27 19:50 UTCOSV refresh
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- 2026-07-23 01:41 UTCEG score recompute
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