Bug 2523720 (CVE-2026-55619) - CVE-2026-55619 eml_parser: eml_parser: Denial of Service vulnerability in email header parsing
Summary: CVE-2026-55619 eml_parser: eml_parser: Denial of Service vulnerability in ema...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-55619
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2524364 2524365
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Reported: 2026-08-25 18:32 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-26 11:49 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-25 18:32:08 UTC
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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