# CVE-2024-7472: Email Injection Vulnerability in lunary-ai/lunary

> An unauthenticated attacker can inject content into verification emails via whitespace bypass, enabling phishing and brand damage.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 29 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2443-9w48-793g

## What is CVE-2024-7472?

CVE-2024-7472 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lunary Lunary, published on 29 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

lunary-ai/lunary v1.2.26 contains an email injection vulnerability in the Send email verification API (/v1/users/send-verification) and Sign up API (/auth/signup). An unauthenticated attacker can inject data into outgoing emails by bypassing the extractFirstName function using a different whitespace character (e.g., \xa0). This vulnerability can be exploited to conduct phishing attacks, damage the application's brand, cause legal and compliance issues, and result in financial impact due to unauthorized email usage.

Weakness: CWE-74 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component), CWE-93 (Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-7472?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Lunary Lunary.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-7472?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-7472 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-7472 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-7472 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Lunary Lunary

- [CVE-2024-8999](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8999/): Improper Access Control in lunary-ai/lunary (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-9095](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9095/): Improper Authorization in lunary-ai/lunary (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-7456](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7456/): SQL Injection in lunary-ai/lunary (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-4146](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4146/): Incorrect Authorization in lunary-ai/lunary (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-5386](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5386/): Account Hijacking via Password Reset Token Leak in lunary-ai/lunary (critical 9.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-7472 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-7472 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lunary Lunary, published on 29 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-7472 exists.

Affected product: Lunary Lunary. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7472/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7472/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7472
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7472
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-7472

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7472/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.