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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.86% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 79.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-07-06 23:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 22:56Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-07-03
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 094818b3764d8a82a1e4a7e8f9c1eef616dbea35a8ad66604bd329f1a5c3a6ad
05 Affected products
06 References
- seclists.org[oss-security] 20140614 CVE-2014-0477: Email::Address: Denial-of-Service in Email::Address::parsehttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563
- github.comhttps://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- libemail-address-perl Fixed in 1.905-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libemail-address-perl Fixed in 1.905-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libemail-address-perl Fixed in 1.905-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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