THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2015-7686
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2015-7686

Email Address vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Email Address Project
Affected product
Email Address
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2015-10-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-7686

  • Confirm whether Email Address Project Email Address is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-7686.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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