CVE-2019-16056 (published 2019-09-06T18:15Z)

An issue was discovered in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.5.7, 3.6.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x through 3.7.4. The email module wrongly parses email addresses that contain multiple @ characters. An application that uses the email module and implements some kind of checks on the From/To headers of a message could be tricked into accepting an email address that should be denied. An attack may be the same as in CVE-2019-11340; however, this CVE applies to Python more generally.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
CVSS v3 base score: 7.5, HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: NVD-CWE-noinfo
cwe_name: Insufficient Information
description: There is insufficient information about the issue to classify it; details are unkown or unspecified.
extended_description: Insufficient Information

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/python/cpython
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/python/cpython
author: jpic
author_date: 2019-07-17 23:54:25+02:00
msg: bpo-34155: Dont parse domains containing @ (GH-13079)



Before:
    
        >>> email.message_from_string('From: a@malicious.org@important.com', policy=email.policy.default)['from'].addresses
        (Address(display_name='', username='a', domain='malicious.org'),)
    
        >>> parseaddr('a@malicious.org@important.com')
        ('', 'a@malicious.org')
    
    After:
    
        >>> email.message_from_string('From: a@malicious.org@important.com', policy=email.policy.default)['from'].addresses
        (Address(display_name='', username='', domain=''),)
    
        >>> parseaddr('a@malicious.org@important.com')
        ('', 'a@')




https://bugs.python.org/issue34155
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/python/cpython
repo_name: python/cpython
description: The Python programming language
repo_language: Python
owner: python
file_changes: filename: _header_value_parser.py
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1587,6 +1587,8 @@ def get_domain(value):
         token, value = get_dot_atom(value)
     except errors.HeaderParseError:
         token, value = get_atom(value)
+    if value and value[0] == '@':
+        raise errors.HeaderParseError('Invalid Domain')
     if leader is not None:
         token[:0] = [leader]
     domain.append(token)

programming_language: Python
filename: _parseaddr.py
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -379,7 +379,12 @@ def getaddrspec(self):
         aslist.append('@')
         self.pos += 1
         self.gotonext()
-        return EMPTYSTRING.join(aslist) + self.getdomain()
+        domain = self.getdomain()
+        if not domain:
+            # Invalid domain, return an empty address instead of returning a
+            # local part to denote failed parsing.
+            return EMPTYSTRING
+        return EMPTYSTRING.join(aslist) + domain
 
     def getdomain(self):
         """Get the complete domain name from an address."""
@@ -394,6 +399,10 @@ def getdomain(self):
             elif self.field[self.pos] == '.':
                 self.pos += 1
                 sdlist.append('.')
+            elif self.field[self.pos] == '@':
+                # bpo-34155: Don't parse domains with two `@` like
+                # `a@malicious.org@important.com`.
+                return EMPTYSTRING
             elif self.field[self.pos] in self.atomends:
                 break
             else:

programming_language: Python
filename: test__header_value_parser.py
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1448,6 +1448,16 @@ def test_get_addr_spec_dot_atom(self):
         self.assertEqual(addr_spec.domain, 'example.com')
         self.assertEqual(addr_spec.addr_spec, 'star.a.star@example.com')
 
+    def test_get_addr_spec_multiple_domains(self):
+        with self.assertRaises(errors.HeaderParseError):
+            parser.get_addr_spec('star@a.star@example.com')
+
+        with self.assertRaises(errors.HeaderParseError):
+            parser.get_addr_spec('star@a@example.com')
+
+        with self.assertRaises(errors.HeaderParseError):
+            parser.get_addr_spec('star@172.17.0.1@example.com')
+
     # get_obs_route
 
     def test_get_obs_route_simple(self):

programming_language: Python
filename: test_email.py
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -3041,6 +3041,20 @@ def test_parseaddr_empty(self):
         self.assertEqual(utils.parseaddr('<>'), ('', ''))
         self.assertEqual(utils.formataddr(utils.parseaddr('<>')), '')
 
+    def test_parseaddr_multiple_domains(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            utils.parseaddr('a@b@c'),
+            ('', '')
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            utils.parseaddr('a@b.c@c'),
+            ('', '')
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            utils.parseaddr('a@172.17.0.1@c'),
+            ('', '')
+        )
+
     def test_noquote_dump(self):
         self.assertEqual(
             utils.formataddr(('A Silly Person', 'person@dom.ain')),

programming_language: Python
filename: 2019-05-04-13-33-37.bpo-34155.MJll68.rst
change_type: ModificationType.ADD
diff: @@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix parsing of invalid email addresses with more than one ``@`` (e.g. a@b@c.com.) to not return the part before 2nd ``@`` as valid email address. Patch by maxking & jpic.

programming_language: Markdown