{"id":"CVE-2018-12558","details":"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\").","modified":"2026-08-27T08:14:06.929148Z","published":"2018-06-20T14:29:00.273Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2019:1114-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:12651-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00012.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/19/3"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901873"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/Perl-Email-Project/Email-Address","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"3607a2d3de244ac087593e077ab2faf7a1a1ff24"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.909"}],"source":"CPE_RANGE","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:email\\:\\:address_module_project:email\\:\\:address:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*"}}],"versions":["1.909","1.908","1.907","1.906","1.905","1.904","1.903","1.902","1.901","1.900","1.899","1.898","1.897","1.896","1.895","1.894","1.893","1.892","1.889"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12558.json"}},{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/perl-email-project/email-address","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"3607a2d3de244ac087593e077ab2faf7a1a1ff24"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:email\\:\\:address_module_project:email\\:\\:address:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.909"}],"source":"CPE_RANGE"}}],"versions":["1.909","1.908","1.907","1.906","1.905","1.904","1.903","1.902","1.901","1.900","1.899","1.898","1.897","1.896","1.895","1.894","1.893","1.892","1.889"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12558.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}