VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2014-4720
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.86%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-07-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.