Medium severity · published Sep 11, 2020
CVE-2013-7491
An issue was discovered in the DBI module before 1.628 for Perl
5.3
CVSS
2.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in the DBI module before 1.628 for Perl. Stack corruption occurs when a user-defined function requires a non-trivial amount of memory and the Perl stack gets reallocated.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.7% · higher than 86% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DB
Dbi · Perl
before 1.628 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7491
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-7491
Patch
https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/401f1221311c71f760e21c98772f0f7e3cbead1d
Release Notes
https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/DBI/Changes#Changes-in-DBI-1.628-22nd-July-2013
Third Party Advisory
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=85562
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