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CVE-2023-36632

Published: 25/06/2023 Updated: 11/04/2024
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 0

Vulnerability Summary

The legacy email.utils.parseaddr function in Python up to and including 3.11.4 allows malicious users 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.

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DescriptionThe MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as: ** DISPUTED ** The legacy emailutilsparseaddr function in Python through 3114 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 ap ...