CVE-2018-18898 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Libemail-address-list-perl

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption6 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.4%
top 19.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Debian Libemail-address-list-perlBestpractical Request TrackerCanonical Ubuntu Linux+2 more
Timeline
PublishedMar 21
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker 4.1.13 through 4.4 allows denial of service by remote attackers via an algorithmic complexity attack on email address parsing.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDbestpractical/request_tracker4.1.13 — 4.4.0
▶debiandebian/libemail-address-list-perl< libemail-address-list-perl 0.06-1 (bookworm)

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 8.0, Fedora 28, 29, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-6rmj-6826-5j8h: The email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker 4↗2022-05-13
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OSV
libemail-address-list-perl vulnerability↗2020-09-17
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OSV
CVE-2018-18898: The email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker 4↗2019-03-21
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Email-Address-List vulnerability↗2020-09-17
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Debian
CVE-2018-18898: libemail-address-list-perl - The email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker 4.1.13 through 4.4...↗2018
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