CVE-2015-7686
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Address.pm in the Email-Address module 1.908 and earlier for Perl allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted string containing a list of e-mail addresses in conjunction with parenthesis characters that can be associated with nested comments. NOTE: the default configuration in 1.908 mitigates this vulnerability but misparses certain realistic comments.
- EPSS
- 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-20, CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- email-address_project:email-address
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/27/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/02/13
- https://forum.bestpractical.com/t/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt-2017-06-15/32016
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/27/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/02/13