CVE-2026-55620

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-55620
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-55620.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-55620
Aliases
Published
2026-08-25T18:26:54.978Z
Modified
2026-08-27T11:47:33.806220355Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
eml_parser: DoS via deeply nested parens in Received headers
Details

emlparser 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, emlparser.routing.noparenthesis in eml_parser/routing.py removes parenthesized CFWS comments from Received: headers with a regex-based fix-point loop whose running time is quadratic in the nesting depth. A single Received: header with 5,000 nested parentheses causes approximately 1.3 seconds of CPU saturation per parsed message, and doubling the nesting depth approximately quadruples the running time. An attacker can submit relatively small EML files that consume multiple seconds of processing time, causing worker latency, queue backpressure, and possible service-level outages in synchronous gateways, sandboxes, and real-time triage pipelines. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.2.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1124",
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/55xxx/CVE-2026-55620.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/govcert-lu/eml_parser

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/govcert-lu/eml_parser
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
Show details
{
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.0.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.5
v0.9
v1.*
v1.0
v1.1
v1.10
v1.11
v1.11.1
v1.11.2
v1.11.3
v1.11.4
v1.11.5
v1.11.6
v1.11.7
v1.12.0
v1.13.0
v1.14.0
v1.14.1
v1.14.2
v1.14.3
v1.14.4
v1.14.5
v1.14.6
v1.14.7
v1.14.8
v1.15.0
v1.16.0
v1.17.0
v1.17.1
v1.17.2
v1.17.3
v1.17.4
v1.17.5
v1.2
v1.4
v1.5
v1.6
v1.7
v1.8
v1.9
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.1
v3.*
v3.0.0
v3.0.1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-55620.json"