CVE-2024-24784

HIGH7.5EPSS 2.0%

Comments in display names are incorrectly handled in net/mail

Published: 3/5/2024Modified: 4/28/2026

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.

Affected packages (4)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References (8)