CPANSA-Email-Address-2018-12558: Email-Address vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2018-06-19T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.26
Current release date 2018-06-19T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 7.5 Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

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").

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-12558

Vulnerability Description

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").

Weakness CWE-407 : Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Email-Address less than 1.909
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 7.5 High
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P 5.0 Medium
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 2018 First release

Sharing rules

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