Well-crafted inputs reaching ParseAddress, ParseAddressList, and ParseDate were able to trigger excessive CPU exhaustion and memory allocations.
CVE-2026-39820
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-05-07. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 49EG Risk 49/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability100% × 15% - EPSS PROB
- 0.8%
- EPSS %ILE
- 54th
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 7, 2026
Last Modified
September 18, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Jun 5, 2026net/mail: ParseAddress: quadratic complexity in consumeComment · Issue #78566 · golang/go · GitHub
https://go.dev/issue/78566Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-39820(20)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:76795Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: grafana security update
- RHSA-2026:76809Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: grafana security update
- RHSA-2026:76752Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Security Profiles Operator bug fix and enhancement update
- RHSA-2026:74511Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Quay 3.17.5
- RHSA-2026:73538Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Lightspeed (formerly Insights) for Runtimes security update
- RHSA-2026:72853Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: multicluster engine for Kubernetes v2.10.7 security update
- RHSA-2026:68534Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.19.48 packages and security update
- RHSA-2026:70267Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Quay 3.14.9
- +12 more
Patch Availability(30)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(6 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:14(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| golang-1.25 | 1.25.0-1 ... 1.25.9-1 (11 versions) |
| — |
| golang-1.26 | 1.26.0-1 ... 1.26~rc3-2 (9 versions) |
| — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| golang-1.15 | 1.15.15-1 ... 1.15.9-6 (10 versions) |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| golang-1.19 | 1.19.10-1 ... 1.19.9-1 (12 versions) |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| golang-1.24 | 1.24.12-1 ... 1.24.9-1 (10 versions) |
| — |
Go(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| stdlib | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(25)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2026-398202026-05-10
Quadratic string concatentation in consumeComment in net/mail
- Red HatRHSA-2026:22112IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:22112 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:22120IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:22120 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:22121IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:22121 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:23262IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:23262 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:23264IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:23264 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:33120IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:33120 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:33123IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:33123 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:33142IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:33142 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:33150IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:33150 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:33574IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:33574 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:34364IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:34364 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:36319IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:36319 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:36625IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:36625 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:36754IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:36754 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:36797IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:36797 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:37276IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:37276 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:40262IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:40262 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:41031IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:41031 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:41066IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:41066 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:41928IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:41928 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:42146IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:42146 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:42644IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:42644 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:42796IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:42796 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:43038IMPORTANT2026-05-07
RHSA-2026:43038 — Important
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 56× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 423 total refreshes for this CVE.
- 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-08 17:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-08 07:35 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-18 13:23 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-18 13:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 12:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-18 12:20 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-18 12:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-17 19:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-17 12:20 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-17 12:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-09-17 12:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-17 12:11 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-17 12:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-15 12:30 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-15 12:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-15 12:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-15 12:14 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-15 12:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-15 03:11 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-14 13:39 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-14 13:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-14 12:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-14 12:35 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-14 12:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-13 16:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-12 15:01 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-11 13:25 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-11 13:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-11 12:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-11 12:21 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-11 12:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-11 09:37 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-10 13:39 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-10 13:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-10 12:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-10 12:27 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-10 12:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-10 09:34 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-09 13:41 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-09 13:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-09 12:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-09 12:39 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-09 12:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-08 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-07 13:57 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-07 13:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-07 12:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-07 12:46 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-07 12:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-04 13:29 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-04 13:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-04 12:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-04 12:22 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-04 12:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-04 05:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-03 13:20 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-03 13:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-03 12:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-03 12:29 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-03 12:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-02 14:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-02 13:42 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-02 13:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-02 12:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-02 12:39 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-02 12:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-01 13:53 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-01 13:48 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-01 13:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-01 12:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-01 12:22 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-01 12:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-01 04:39 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-31 13:33 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-31 13:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-31 12:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-31 12:30 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-31 12:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescore
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