PSF-2023-2

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    PSF-2023-2

    Published: 18 Apr 2023Last Modified: 9 Oct 2025

    Summary: Parsing errors in email/_parseaddr.py lead to incorrect value in email address part of tuple

    Details: The email module of Python through 3.11.3 incorrectly parses e-mail addresses that contain a special character. The wrong portion of an RFC2822 header is identified as the value of the addr-spec. In some applications, an attacker can bypass a protection mechanism in which application access is granted only after verifying receipt of e-mail to a specific domain (e.g., only @company.example.com addresses may be used for signup). This occurs in email/_parseaddr.py in recent versions of Python.

    References: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/102988

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4a153a1d3b18803a684cd1bcc2cdf3ede3dbae19

    Affected versions

    2.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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    Availability
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