eml_parser serves as a python module for parsing eml files and returning various information found in the e-mail as well as computed information. Prior to 3.0.2, eml_parser.parser.HeaderParser.header_fetch_parse in eml_parser/parser.py uses email.utils.getaddresses() to parse address-bearing e-mail headers. A deeply nested CFWS comment construct exhausts the standard-library recursive descent parser's call stack and raises RecursionError, which is not caught and therefore aborts parsing of the entire message. An attacker can disrupt SOC pipelines that process untrusted EML files, although callers already need to handle exceptions from malformed or pathological messages. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.2.
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| Description | eml_parser serves as a python module for parsing eml files and returning various information found in the e-mail as well as computed information. Prior to 3.0.2, eml_parser.parser.HeaderParser.header_fetch_parse in eml_parser/parser.py uses email.utils.getaddresses() to parse address-bearing e-mail headers. A deeply nested CFWS comment construct exhausts the standard-library recursive descent parser's call stack and raises RecursionError, which is not caught and therefore aborts parsing of the entire message. An attacker can disrupt SOC pipelines that process untrusted EML files, although callers already need to handle exceptions from malformed or pathological messages. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.2. | |
| Title | eml_parser: Parser DoS via deeply nested parentheses in e-mail headers | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1124 CWE-770 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-08-25T18:24:29.921Z
Updated: 2026-08-25T19:20:15.362Z
Reserved: 2026-06-16T23:31:22.446Z
Link: CVE-2026-55619
Updated: 2026-08-25T19:19:02.650Z
Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-08-25T19:16:50.477
Modified: 2026-09-09T21:07:31.353
Link: CVE-2026-55619
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