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CVE-2023-36632

Published: 6/25/2023 Last updated: 11/27/2024 Reserved: 6/25/2023

The legacy email.utils.parseaddr function in Python through 3.11.4 allows attackers to trigger "RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object" via a crafted argument. This argument is plausibly an untrusted value from an application's input data that was supposed to contain a name and an e-mail address. NOTE: email.utils.parseaddr is categorized as a Legacy API in the documentation of the Python email package. Applications should instead use the email.parser.BytesParser or email.parser.Parser class. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that this is neither a vulnerability nor a bug. The email package is intended to have size limits and to throw an exception when limits are exceeded; they were exceeded by the example demonstration code.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (7)

conf-python-2-7 conf-python-2-7-dev conf-python-3 conf-python-3-7 conf-python-3-dev py termbox

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a < 88ddad53e4cfb6de861c6d4fb7b25427f46baed5

References (8)