Description
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.
Published: 2014-07-06
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-4639 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:56:23.596Z

Reserved: 2014-07-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-4720

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Status : Modified

Published: 2014-07-06T23:55:02.050

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

Link: CVE-2014-4720

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