Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.030 (87.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.030 · newest: 0.030 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X
- Perl — versions 5.18.4
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0c2990d652e985784f095bba4bc356481a66aa06
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11 (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1 (vendor-advisory)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT205031 (Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/75704 (vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2013-7422?
- CVE-2013-7422 is a vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X, classified under CWE-189. Published 2015-08-16.
- Is CVE-2013-7422 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.