Security Advisory

CVE-2023-27043

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-04-18 00:00:00
Last updated 2026-05-12 10:52:16
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.