Skip to content
Fencer Intel
critical 9.8

CVE-2013-1437 json

Eval injection vulnerability in the Module-Metadata module before 1.000015 for Perl allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-1475

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • module-metadata_project module-metadata 1.000015
  • perl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.18.1-2
  • libmodule-metadata-perl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.000015-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1437

  • perl-Module-Metadata openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.000033-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10177-1

Is CVE-2013-1437 in your stack? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-1437 updated

perl-Module-Metadata: incorrectly documents that it does not execute unsafe code

  • Red Hat Software Collections perl516-perl-Module-Metadata
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl-Module-Metadata
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Perl Toolchain Gang Module-Metadata

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.