Description
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: 2014-07-03
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 1.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2969-1 libemail-address-perl security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-0512 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.
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01764}

epss

{'score': 0.0166}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T09:20:17.944Z

Reserved: 2013-12-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-0477

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-07-03T17:55:05.937

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-0477

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2014-06-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-0477 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses