https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/71f2e02a52d47417a6fd69f456346cd8aa7aca98
commit: 71f2e02a52d47417a6fd69f456346cd8aa7aca98
branch: 3.14
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: encukou <[email protected]>
date: 2026-06-24T11:46:33+02:00
summary:

[3.14] gh-143927: Normalize all line endings (CR, CRLF, and LF) in configparser 
(GH-143929) (GH-152003)

gh-143927: Normalize all line endings (CR, CRLF, and LF) in configparser 
(GH-143929)
(cherry picked from commit 5858e42c539dac8394636a6e9b30472b8994851f)

Co-authored-by: Seth Larson <[email protected]>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2026-01-16-11-58-19.gh-issue-143927.aviFeG.rst
M Lib/configparser.py
M Lib/test/test_configparser.py

diff --git a/Lib/configparser.py b/Lib/configparser.py
index a53ac87276445a..3c452afe8ade48 100644
--- a/Lib/configparser.py
+++ b/Lib/configparser.py
@@ -992,7 +992,9 @@ def _write_section(self, fp, section_name, section_items, 
delimiter, unnamed=Fal
             value = self._interpolation.before_write(self, section_name, key,
                                                      value)
             if value is not None or not self._allow_no_value:
-                value = delimiter + str(value).replace('\n', '\n\t')
+                # Convert all possible line-endings into '\n\t'
+                value = (delimiter + str(value).replace('\r\n', '\n')
+                         .replace('\r', '\n').replace('\n', '\n\t'))
             else:
                 value = ""
             fp.write("{}{}\n".format(key, value))
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_configparser.py b/Lib/test/test_configparser.py
index 8d8dd2a2bf27fb..4783943f71a109 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_configparser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_configparser.py
@@ -526,6 +526,17 @@ def test_default_case_sensitivity(self):
             cf.get(self.default_section, "Foo"), "Bar",
             "could not locate option, expecting case-insensitive defaults")
 
+    def test_crlf_normalization(self):
+        cf = self.newconfig({"key1": "a\nb","key2": "a\rb", "key3": "a\r\nb", 
"key4": "a\r\nb"})
+        buf = io.StringIO()
+        cf.write(buf)
+        cf_str = buf.getvalue()
+        self.assertNotIn("\r", cf_str)
+        self.assertNotIn("\r\n", cf_str)
+        self.assertEqual(cf_str.count("\n"), 10)
+        self.assertEqual(cf_str.count("\n\t"), 4)
+        self.assertTrue(cf_str.endswith("\n\n"))
+
     def test_parse_errors(self):
         cf = self.newconfig()
         self.parse_error(cf, configparser.ParsingError,
diff --git 
a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2026-01-16-11-58-19.gh-issue-143927.aviFeG.rst 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2026-01-16-11-58-19.gh-issue-143927.aviFeG.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..ca554997e5c396
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2026-01-16-11-58-19.gh-issue-143927.aviFeG.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Normalize all line endings (CR, CRLF, and LF) to LF+TAB when writing
+multi-line configparser values.

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