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CVE-2014-4330

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4330 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Data::Dumper versions prior to 2.154, affecting Perl 5.20.1 and earlier. An attacker can trigger a stack consumption and crash by providing a specially crafted Array-Reference with numerous nested Array-References, leading to excessive recursive calls. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.20.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.151CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:data_dumper_project:data_dumper:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
42.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0055 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: perl
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: perl
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: perl
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: perl-Data-Dumper
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: perl516-perl-Data-Dumper

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-4330Low

perl-Data-Dumper: deep recursion stack overflow

Sep 18, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0406.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139441.html
packetstormsecurity.com / files/128422/Perl-5.20.1-Deep-Recursion-Stack-Overflow.html
Exploit
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/84
Exploit
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q3/692
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/61441
secunia.com / advisories/61961
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/96216
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
metacpan.org / pod/distribution/Data-Dumper/Changes
lsexperts.de / advisories/lse-2014-06-10.txt
Exploit
mandriva.com / security/advisories
nntp.perl.org / group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220118.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/533543/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/70142
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2916-1