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.
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Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00613}

epss

{'score': 0.01026}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-10-03T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:58:58.824Z

Reserved: 2015-10-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-7686

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-10-06T01:59:33.673

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-7686

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-09-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-7686 - Bugzilla