CVE-2026-39820 (GCVE-0-2026-39820)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-07 19:41 – Updated: 2026-05-08 14:27
VLAI?
Title
Quadratic string concatentation in consumeComment in net/mail
Summary
Well-crafted inputs reaching ParseAddress, ParseAddressList, and ParseDate were able to trigger excessive CPU exhaustion and memory allocations.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library net/mail Affected: 0 , < 1.25.10 (semver)
Affected: 1.26.0-0 , < 1.26.3 (semver)
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Credits
thatnealpatel
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