VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-0477

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.58%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-07-03
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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