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CVE-2013-7490

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-7490 describes a memory corruption vulnerability in the Perl DBI module versions prior to 1.632, affecting products like Canonical Ubuntu Linux and Perl DBI. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) can be triggered remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to a denial of service due to memory corruption. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting low current threat exposure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.632CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:perl:dbi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0274 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: perl-DBI

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-7490Moderate

perl-dbi: Risk of memory corruption with many arguments in DBI method dispatch

Sep 21, 2014

References

github.com / perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/a8b98e988d6ea2946f5f56691d6d5ead53f65766
PatchThird Party Advisory
metacpan.org / pod/distribution/DBI/Changes
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
rt.cpan.org / Public/Bug/Display.html
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4509-1
Third Party Advisory