CVE-2014-4330
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 0.6%EU EUVD
The Dumper method in Data::Dumper before 2.154, as used in Perl 5.20.1 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via an Array-Reference with many nested Array-References, which triggers a large number of recursive calls to the DD_dump function.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 0.6% (46th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-4257)
- Published
- September 30, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-4257 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- data dumper project / data dumper
- perl / perl
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0406.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139441.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128422/Perl-5.20.1-Deep-Recursion-Stack-Overflow.html(Exploit)
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/84(Exploit)
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/692(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61441
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61961
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:136
- http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220118.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533543/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70142
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96216
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Data-Dumper/Changes
- https://www.lsexperts.de/advisories/lse-2014-06-10.txt(Exploit)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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