CVE-2013-1437

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-01-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-74

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.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 18, 19
Module-Metadata Project Module-Metadata: before 1.000015 — fixed in 1.000015

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Module-Metadata Project Module-Metadata 1.000015. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/114904.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/114912.html
https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Module-Metadata
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/114904.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/114912.html
https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Module-Metadata

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