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email_header_injection

CWE-93

Email Header Injection — a PullGuard finding type. Findings of this type appear in the PR comment, Step Summary, SARIF (GitHub Security tab / IDE viewers), and the HTML report, each with severity, location, and the remediation guidance below.

How to fix

Strip CRLF from email header values before sending trivial effort

// WRONG
mailer.sendMail({ to: req.query.to, subject: req.query.subject });

// RIGHT — strip \r\n or use a framework that does it for you
const safe = (v) => String(v).replace(/[\r\n]/g, "");
mailer.sendMail({ to: safe(req.query.to), subject: safe(req.query.subject) });

Triage

Suppress a confirmed non-issue with a committed .pullguardignore entry (pullguard ignore locally, or comment /pullguard ignore <fingerprint> <reason> on the PR — the fingerprint is printed in the PR comment’s Triage section). Entries support expiresAt for time-boxed snoozes.

Security findings at major or critical severity — and any critical finding — always surface: .pullguardignore cannot hide them. The reviewed paths that keep them visible are acknowledged (reviewed, stays in reports) and, for a confirmed false positive, a reasoned false_positive entry — visible and audited, excluded only from the merge block.