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CVE-2014-0477

Date: July 3, 2014

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.

Language: Perl

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (13)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0477

Url: https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110723

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0477

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/59333

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/59212

Url: https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0477

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/61981

Url: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563

Url: https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-0477

Severity Score

5.3

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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