CVE-2024-24784

Comments in display names are incorrectly handled in net/mail

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Mar 5, 2024
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Jan 30, 2024

Description

The ParseAddressList function incorrectly handles comments (text within parentheses) within display names. Since this is a misalignment with conforming address parsers, it can result in different trust decisions being made by programs using different parsers.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
net/mailGo standard library	before 1.21.8Affected 1.22.0-0 to before 1.22.1Affected

References

https://go.dev/issue/65083
https://go.dev/cl/555596
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/5pwGVUPoMbg
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2609
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240329-0007/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/08/4

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