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CVE-2015-7686

N/A

Published: October 3, 2015 at 10:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:32 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorEmail Address

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 4%

Description

Algorithmic 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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Email Address · Email Address Projectcpan

95%

v ≤ 1.908

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (3)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/27/1

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/02/13

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://forum.bestpractical.com/t/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt-2017-06-15/32016

CVSS

7.8HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-20CWE-399

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