CVE-2024-24784: Comments in display names are incorrectly handled in net/mail

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AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-24784DEBIAN-CVE-2024-24784CGA-22v2-r6h3-68jx+682 more

Published 05-03-2024Last modified 13-02-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-24784 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in go standard library net/mail. EPSS estimates a 1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority

Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?

CVSS score

7.5/10

010

High · v3.1 (CVE.org)

EPSS score

1.05%

0%100%

Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days

KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.

RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.

Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 19 · Related 459

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13752-1 OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13756-1 RHSA-2024:0045 RHSA-2024:2562 RHSA-2024:3259 RHSA-2024:4023+94 more

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Timeline

05-03-2024
PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
13-02-2025
Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

v3.17.5

EPSS trend

Probability

1.05%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

64%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 1.05% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard199 products

actions-runner-controller< 0.8.3-r1
amass< 4.2.0-r4
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gitness< 3.0.0_beta5-r1
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go-1.20All versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.20.14-r9
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Alpine1 product

go< 1.21.8-r0 | < 1.22.1-r0

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References

17 links

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www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24784REPORT
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6886-1Advisory
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7109-1Advisory
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7111-1Advisory
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-24784Advisory
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24784OvalAdvisory
security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-24784Advisory