CVE-2014-0477

CVE-2014-0477 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the Email::Address Perl module, specifically versions prior to 1.905. An attacker can exploit an inefficient regular expression in the module's parse function by sending an RFC 2822 address containing an empty quoted string, leading to high CPU consumption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.