CVE-2018-12558
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.49%
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").
How to fix CVE-2018-12558
To remediate CVE-2018-12558, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/perl-email-address—upgrade to 1.912-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.912-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-12558 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.912-r0
- from 0, < 1.912-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |