CVE-2018-12558

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-407

Description

The parse() method in the Email::Address module through 1.909 for Perl is vulnerable to Algorithmic complexity on specially prepared input, leading to Denial of Service. Prepared special input that caused this problem contained 30 form-field characters ("\f").

Affected products

Email::Address Module Project Email::Address: through 1.909

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00012.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/19/3
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901873
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00012.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/19/3
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901873

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