CVE-2014-0477
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 3.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 3.6% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-0512)
- Published
- July 3, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-0512 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedoraproject / fedora
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59212
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59333
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61981
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110723
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5(Exploit, Patch)
- https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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