# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53537"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-22T16:57:21.496Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-23T16:08:07.690Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53537"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53537.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53537"
title: "Python-Multipart: Content-Disposition parameter smuggling via RFC 2231/5987 extended parameters"
summary: "Python-Multipart is a streaming multipart parser for Python. Prior to 0.0.30, parse_options_header parsed Content-Disposition (and Content-Type) headers with email.message.Message, which transparently applies RFC 2231/5987 decoding. The extended parameter syntax (filename*=charset'lang'value, name*=..., and the filename*0/filename*1 continuation form) is decoded and surfaced under the bare filename/name key, and overrides the plain parameter when both are present. RFC 7578 §4.2 explicitly forbids the filename* form in multipart/form-data. Components that follow RFC 7578, or that do not implement RFC 2231/5987 decoding for multipart/form-data (WAFs, proxies, gateways), may interpret such a header differently. An attacker can exploit that difference to smuggle a different field name or filename past an upstream inspector to the backend. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.0.30."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 0.0.30","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Kludex","product":"python-multipart"}]

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