GHSA-fxgq-9m89-cxj9

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GHSA-fxgq-9m89-cxj9

Summary: eml_parser has a URL extraction bypass via HTML entities in URLs

Details: ## Summary `eml_parser` performs certain validations on potential URL strings to discard bogus values. In versions prior to `3.0.2`, this validation was performed before unescaping any HTML entities that might occur in the string. This caused the library to wrongfully reject valid URLs that use HTML entities for the `:`, `/`, or `.` characters. These URLs would then not be included in the list of extracted URLs. Similarly, the host parts of such URLs would not be extracted. For example, neither the URL `https://phishing.example.com` nor its host (`phishing.example.com`) would appear in the parsing result. ## Impact `eml_parser` is used in email security gateways and SOC pipelines to extract URLs as IOCs. Those URLs are then checked against threat-intel feeds, URL reputation services, and sandboxes. A URL that is not extracted is never checked. ## Patches Since version 3.0.2 the library unescapes all HTML entities in every URL before deciding to accept or reject it. A test was added to prevent regressions.

References: https://github.com/GOVCERT-LU/eml_parser/security/advisories/GHSA-fxgq-9m89-cxj9, https://github.com/GOVCERT-LU/eml_parser/pull/90, https://github.com/GOVCERT-LU/eml_parser/commit/746a69f86443eb0b6a47f77db3cfe727c21f92b3, https://github.com/GOVCERT-LU/eml_parser, https://github.com/GOVCERT-LU/eml_parser/releases/tag/v3.0.2