fkie_cve-2023-36632
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2023-06-25 18:15
Modified
2024-11-21 08:10
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.htmlProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.utils.htmlProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/Daybreak2019/PoC_python3.9_Vul/blob/main/RecursionError-email.utils.parseaddr.pyProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103800Exploit, Issue Tracking
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
python python *


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