In short
- CVE-2014-4720 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting (email).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.9%, higher than 79.3% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| = 1.1= 1.2= 1.3= 1.5= 1.6= 1.7= 1.80= 1.85= 1.86= 1.870= 1.871= 1.880= 1.881= 1.882= 1.883= 1.884= 1.885= 1.886= 1.887= 1.888= 1.889= 1.890= 1.891= 1.892= 1.893= 1.894= 1.895= 1.896= 1.897= 1.898= 1.899= 1.900= 1.901= 1.902≤ 1.903
| No fix yet |
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.
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