Vulnerability in Email\ \
CVE-2014-0477
The parse function in Email::Address module before 1.905 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an empty quoted string in an RFC 2822 address.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.036 (89.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.036 · newest: 0.036 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Email\ \ — versions address_module_project
- Email\:\:address Module Project — versions 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
- Fedoraproject Fedora
References
- metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905
- secunia.com/advisories/59333 (third-party-advisory)
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563 (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/61981 (third-party-advisory)
- github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5 (Exploit, Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/59212 (third-party-advisory)
- github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969 (vendor-advisory)