CVE-2026-55618Medium· 6.5▾ Sunliteml_parser has a URL extraction bypass via HTML entities in URLs
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 35.8 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Disclosed via OSV
0.3%
Last analysed / modified upstream
eml_parser performs certain validations on potential URL strings to discard bogus values. In versions prior to 3.0.2, this validation was performed before unescaping any HTML entities that might occur in the string. This caused the library to wrongfully reject valid URLs that use HTML entities for the :, /, or . characters. These URLs would then not be included in the list of extracted URLs. Similarly, the host parts of such URLs would not be extracted.
For example, neither the URL https://phishing.example.com nor its host (phishing.example.com) would appear in the parsing result.
eml_parser is used in email security gateways and SOC pipelines to extract URLs as IOCs. Those URLs are then checked against threat-intel feeds, URL reputation services, and sandboxes. A URL that is not extracted is never checked.
Since version 3.0.2 the library unescapes all HTML entities in every URL before deciding to accept or reject it. A test was added to prevent regressions.
eml-parser < 3.0.2Upgrade to a patched release:
eml-parser 3.0.2Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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