CVE-2015-7686

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-7686
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-10-06 01:59:33 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionAlgorithmic 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.8 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-20 | CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Email-address Project Email-address All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - DoS attack through Email-Address perl module v1.907 (CVE id request) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
oss-security - Re: DoS attack through Email-Address perl module v1.907 (CVE id request) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Security vulnerabilities in RT (2017-06-15) - RT Users - Request Tracker Community Forum af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 forum.bestpractical.com
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