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HistoryOct 03, 2022 - 4:20 p.m.

CVE-2014-4720

2022-10-0316:20:46
Debian Security Bug Tracker
security-tracker.debian.org
9
cve-2014-4720
email::address
denial of service
cpu consumption
perl
regular expression
remote attackers
backtracking
vulnerability

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.039 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.0%

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.

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.039 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.0%