CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-4720

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2014-07-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-07-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Email::Address module before 1.904 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via vectors related to "backtracking into the phrase," a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-0477.

Affected configurations

• email\ \ address module project (<= 1.903) • email\ \ address module project

References