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.
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Fri, 25 Oct 2024 02:15:00 +0000

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Metrics threat_severity

Moderate

threat_severity

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-06-25T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-02T16:52:54.270Z

Reserved: 2023-06-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2023-36632

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-06-25T18:15:09.313

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:10:07.813

Link: CVE-2023-36632

cve-icon Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2023-06-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-36632 - Bugzilla