Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-7422

Title: Perl RCE

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-7422.

CWE Category CWE-189
Published Date Aug 16, 2015
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-7422: Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression.

Impacted Vendors

L
larry_wall 1
P
perl 1

Reference Links

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0c2990d652e985784f095bba4bc356481a66aa06 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75704 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0c2990d652e985784f095bba4bc356481a66aa06 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75704 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-7422 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.