CVE-2018-12558

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
Description
The parse() method in the Email::Address module through 1.909 for Perl is vulnerable to Algorithmic complexity on specially prepared input, leading to Denial of Service. Prepared special input that caused this problem contained 30 form-field characters ("\f").
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-12558
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-06-20T14:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-04-02T18:29:01
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-407 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/407.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:email\:\:address_module_project:email\:\:address:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:* 1 OR 1.909
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901873 Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/19/3 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00012.html
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12558
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12558
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:44:44 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 08:16:22 2018-06-20T14:29Z 2018-06-20T14:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 08:16:22 2019-04-02T18:29:01 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 08:16:22 Modified Vulnerability Status updated