CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-7686

7.8 HIGH Published 2015-10-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-10-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• email-address project email-address (<= 1.908)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References