PT-2015-7580 · Unknown · Email::Address

Pali Rohár · Published 2015-10-03 · Updated 2017-07-04 · CVE-2015-7686

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Email-Address module versions 1.908 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to high CPU consumption. This can be achieved by sending a crafted string containing a list of e-mail addresses in conjunction with parenthesis characters that can be associated with nested comments.

Recommendations For Email-Address module versions 1.908 and earlier, consider updating to a version later than 1.908 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of nested comments in conjunction with parenthesis characters to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-7686

DSA-3882-1

MGASA-2016-0397

Affected Products

Email::Address

References · 22

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7686 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0397.html · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6127 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5943 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/request-tracker4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7686 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0397 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3882-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3882-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7686 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7686 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7686 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5944 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7686 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-7686 · Vendor Advisory