CVE-2026-82520
Because parsedmarc automatically processes incoming DMARC report emails without user interaction, an unauthenticated remote attacker can send a crafted email with a highly compressed attachment to the monitored mailbox, causing the parsedmarc process to…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
parsedmarc before 11.0.1 decompresses gzip and ZIP attachments in a single unbounded read with no limit on decompressed output size. Because parsedmarc automatically processes incoming DMARC report emails without user interaction, an unauthenticated remote attacker can send a crafted email with a highly compressed attachment to the monitored mailbox, causing the parsedmarc process to allocate memory proportional to the uncompressed size and exhaust available RAM.
- CVSS 4.0
- 8.7 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.44% probability · 37th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-409
- Source
- disclosure@vulncheck.com
References
- https://github.com/domainaware/parsedmarc/releases/tag/11.0.1
- https://github.com/domainaware/parsedmarc/security/advisories/GHSA-43qf-f35w-2x4r
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/parsedmarc-zip-bomb-dos-via-compressed-email-attachments
- https://github.com/domainaware/parsedmarc/security/advisories/GHSA-43qf-f35w-2x4r
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.