CVE-2014-0477: Email::address Module Project Email::address

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The parse function in Email::Address module before 1.905 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an empty quoted string in an RFC 2822 address.

Affected products

• Email::address Module Project Email::address: up to and including 1.904; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.6 only; …
• Fedoraproject Fedora: any version

Published 2014-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.