diff --git a/git/objects/tag.py b/git/objects/tag.py
index e08d6ef10..2dbf79f1b 100644
--- a/git/objects/tag.py
+++ b/git/objects/tag.py
@@ -106,7 +106,16 @@ def _set_cache_(self, attr: str) -> None:
         """Cache all our attributes at once."""
         if attr in TagObject.__slots__:
             ostream = self.repo.odb.stream(self.binsha)
-            lines: List[str] = ostream.read().decode(defenc, "replace").splitlines()
+            # Git ends a header only at a line feed, but str.splitlines() also
+            # breaks at "\r", "\v", "\f", U+2028 and similar. Splitting a tag
+            # object that way lets an untrusted "tag" header containing such a
+            # character shift every later header by a line. Split at "\n" only,
+            # and drop the trailing empty element so tags that use line feeds
+            # parse exactly as before.
+            data = ostream.read().decode(defenc, "replace")
+            lines: List[str] = data.split("\n")
+            if lines and lines[-1] == "":
+                lines.pop()
 
             _obj, hexsha = lines[0].split(" ")
             _type_token, type_name = lines[1].split(" ")
diff --git a/test/test_refs.py b/test/test_refs.py
index 2edb7b766..42bf5200e 100644
--- a/test/test_refs.py
+++ b/test/test_refs.py
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@
 import os.path as osp
 import tempfile
 import unittest
+from io import BytesIO
 from itertools import chain
 from pathlib import Path
 from unittest.mock import patch
 
+from gitdb import IStream
 from gitdb.exc import BadName
 
 import git.refs as refs
@@ -139,6 +141,31 @@ def test_tags_author(self):
         tagger_name = tagobj.tagger.name
         assert tagger_name == "Michael Trier"
 
+    def test_tag_headers_split_at_line_feeds_only(self):
+        # A "tag" header value carrying a U+2028 (or any separator that
+        # str.splitlines() honors but git does not) must not shift the later
+        # headers. Git ends a header only at "\n", so GitPython must read the
+        # whole value as the tag name and the following line as the tagger,
+        # exactly as "git cat-file tag" does. See the TagObject parsing fix.
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_dir:
+            with self._repo_with_initial_commit(Path(tmp_dir)) as repo:
+                commit_hexsha = repo.head.commit.hexsha
+                payload = (
+                    f"object {commit_hexsha}\n"
+                    "type commit\n"
+                    "tag v1
tagger Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1700000000 +0000\n"
+                    "tagger Mallory <m@evil.example> 1700000001 +0000\n"
+                    "\n"
+                    "release\n"
+                ).encode("utf-8")
+                istream = repo.odb.store(IStream("tag", len(payload), BytesIO(payload)))
+                tagobj = TagObject(repo, istream.binsha)
+
+                assert tagobj.tag == "v1
tagger Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1700000000 +0000"
+                assert tagobj.tagger.name == "Mallory"
+                assert tagobj.tagger.email == "m@evil.example"
+                assert tagobj.message == "release"
+
     def test_tags(self):
         # Tag refs can point to tag objects or to commits.
         s = set()