Vulnerability in Email\ \

CVE-2014-4720

Email::Address module before 1.904 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via vectors related to "backtracking into the phrase," a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-0477.

EPSS: 0.019 (77.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Email\ \ — versions address_module_project
  • N/a — versions n/a

References