CVE-2018-18898
libemail-address-list-perl - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.4%
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-18898
To remediate CVE-2018-18898, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/perl-email-address-list—upgrade to 0.06-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 0.06-1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.05-1+deb8u1 or later
Is CVE-2018-18898 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 0.06-r0
- from 0, < 0.06-1
- from 0, < 0.05-1+deb8u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |