CVSS 3.0
7.5 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2018-12558
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").
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-407
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- email\:\
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