CVE-2014-0477

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

Email::Address Module Project Email::Address: through 1.904; 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 (+29)
Fedoraproject Fedora: all versions

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
https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563
http://secunia.com/advisories/59212
http://secunia.com/advisories/59333

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