CVE-2015-7686: Email-Address Project Email-Address

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Email-Address Project Email-Address: up to and including 1.908

Published 2015-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.