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CVE-2014-0477 json

The parse function in Email::Address module before 1.905 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to…

published 2014-07-03 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-0512

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The parse function in Email::Address module before 1.905 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an empty quoted string in an RFC 2822 address.

Patch / fix

  • libemail-address-perl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.905-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0477

  • perl-Email-Address openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.908-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10452-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-0477 updated cvss 2.1

perl-Email-Address: Denial-of-Service in Email::Address::parse

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl-Email-Address
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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