CVE-2013-1437

Publication date 28 January 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in the Module-Metadata module before 1.000015 for Perl allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code via the $Version value.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libmodule-metadata-perl	13.10 saucy	Ignored
	13.04 raring	Ignored end of life
	12.10 quantal	Ignored
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release
perl	13.10 saucy	Not affected
	13.04 raring	Ignored end of life
	12.10 quantal	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected

Notes

seth-arnold

"low" priority because the "fix" is to the documentation: the intended behavior is to execute code to determine metadata.

mdeslaur

marking as ignored.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libmodule-metadata-perl	Vendor: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libmodule-metadata-perl.git;a=commitdiff;h=4e8e63bb8ddfb0f47835602a793c2fd896feac24;hp=8ba6d45f647a4df5047296f79314641a7b63563a

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1437