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CVE-2024-24784Comments in display names are incorrectly handled in net/mail
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 35% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Go
- 35 days later
· 35 days later
Published
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Go standard library · net/mail
- affected < 1.21.8
- affected 1.22.0-0 – < 1.22.1
References
References6
- https://go.dev/issue/65083 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://go.dev/cl/555596 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/5pwGVUPoMbg (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2609 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240329-0007/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/08/4 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-22162 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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