cve-2023-36632
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-06-25 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 16:52
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://docs.python.org/3/library/email.htmlProduct
cve@mitre.orghttps://docs.python.org/3/library/email.utils.htmlProduct
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/Daybreak2019/PoC_python3.9_Vul/blob/main/RecursionError-email.utils.parseaddr.pyProduct
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103800Exploit, Issue Tracking
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