CVE-2023-36632

CVE Details

CVE-2023-36632

Last Update

11/7/24

NIST CVE Summary

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.

Our Official Summary

Investigation is ongoing to determine how this vulnerability affects our products.

CVE Severity

7.5

Status

Ongoing

Affected Products & Versions

• Palette Enterprise 4.5.3, 4.5.8
• Palette VerteX 4.5.3, 4.5.8

Revision History

• 1.0 10/14/24 Initial Publication
• 2.0 10/14/2024 Added Palette Enterprise & Palette VerteX 4.5.3 to Affected Products
• 3.0 11/7/2024 Added Palette Enterprise & Palette VerteX 4.5.8 to Affected Products