CVE-2026-55620
### Summary `eml_parser` strips parenthesised CFWS comments from `Received:` headers using a regex-based fix-point loop. The loop has quadratic time complexity in the number of nested parens. A single `Received:` header containing 5,000 nested parens causes ~1.3 seconds of CPU saturation per parsed message; runtime quadruples per doubling of nesting depth. ### Impact This represents a CPU exhaustion DoS in any pipeline that processes attacker-supplied EML files. An attacker can create relatively small EML files that will take multiple seconds to parse. This is particularly problematic for synchronous email-processing pipelines (gateways, sandboxes, real-time triage) where worker latency directly translates to queue backpressure and possible service-level outages. ### Patches Since version 3.0.2, `eml_parser` uses a linear-time algorithm to remove the comments from `Received:` headers.
Properties
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-g7gc-gmgp-wgqg
- severity
- high
- summary
- eml_parser vulnerable to DoS via deeply nested parens in Received headers
- cvss_score
- 7.5
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-55620
- cvss_vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- is_ghsa_only
- false
- ghsa_published
- 2026-08-25T18:27:18Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g7gc-gmgp-wgqg
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-08-25T18:27:19Z
Related Entities (5)
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