7.5

CVE-2013-1667: perl Resource Management Errors

Modified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2013-1667DSA-2641-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10161-1
Published 12-03-2013Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-1667 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in perl. EPSS estimates a 3.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 7.5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.58%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
RHSA-2013:0685

Timeline

  1. 12-03-2013
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The rehash mechanism in Perl 5.8.2 through 5.16.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via a crafted hash key.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.58%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

89%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 3.58% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian1 product
  • perl< 5.14.2-19 | < 5.10.1-17squeeze6
Opensuse1 product
  • apache2-mod_perl&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 2.0.9-5.1
Perl1 product
  • perl5.8.2 | 5.8.3 | 5.8.4 | 5.8.5 | 5.8.6 | 5.8.7 | 5.8.8 | 5.8.9 | 5.8.10 | 5.10 | 5.10.0 | 5.10.0:rc1 | 5.10.0:rc2 | 5.10.1 | 5.10.1:rc1 | 5.10.1:rc2 | 5.11.0 | 5.11.1 | 5.11.2 | 5.11.3 | 5.11.4 | 5.11.5 | 5.12.0 | 5.12.0:rc0 | 5.12.0:rc1 | 5.12.0:rc2 | 5.12.0:rc3 | 5.12.0:rc4 | 5.12.0:rc5 | 5.12.1 | 5.12.1:rc1 | 5.12.1:rc2 | 5.12.2 | 5.12.2:rc1 | 5.12.3 | 5.12.3:rc1 | 5.12.3:rc2 | 5.12.3:rc3 | 5.12.4 | 5.13.0 | 5.13.1 | 5.13.2 | 5.13.3 | 5.13.4 | 5.13.5 | 5.13.6 | 5.13.7 | 5.13.8 | 5.13.9 | 5.13.10 | 5.13.11 | 5.14.0 | 5.14.0:rc1 | 5.14.0:rc2 | 5.14.0:rc3 | 5.14.1 | 5.14.2 | 5.14.3 | 5.16.0 | 5.16.1 | 5.16.2

3 vendors · 3 products

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