CVE-2013-1437 Code injection in Module-Metadata

What is CVE-2013-1437?

CVE-2013-1437 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 28 Jan 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-74

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1437?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Module-Metadata Project Module-Metadata.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1437?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2013-1437 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1437 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1437, GHSA-86v9-w7h5-78qj, MGASA-2014-0093, openSUSE-SU-2024:10177-1.