MetaCP...nt::Cve(3pm)
β¨ MetaCPAN::Client::Cve β the manual page, but make it cute β¨
okay so this is MetaCPAN::Client::Cve, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section (3pm, bestie, third section, perl module, you know the drill π ). it's a whole vibes situation and we're gonna get into it.
πΈ NAME πΈ
MetaCPAN::Client::Cve β literally just a CVE data object. that's it. that's the whole thing. a lil guy that holds CVE info. π
π VERSION π
version 2.044000 β slay, specific, iconic.
π¦ SYNOPSIS π¦
look at her. so simple. so clean.
my $cve = $mcpan->cve('CPANSA-DBD-SQLite-2019-5018');
one line. one call. a whole CVE object materializes. no cap. β¨
π DESCRIPTION π
it's a MetaCPAN CVE entity object. that's the official word. it's giving "I hold CVE data and I do it fabulously." π«Ά
π ATTRIBUTES π
okay so THIS is the good part. every single one of these is a thing you can ask your CVE object about. π΅οΈββοΈ
cpansa_idβ hands you the CPAN Security Advisory Database id. like a lil name tag but for security advisories. π³descriptionβ the CVE description. the lore. the backstory. πdistributionβ the CPAN distribution it's about. which one of our lil packages is in the group chat. π¦reportedβ the reporting date of the CVE. when the tea was first spilled. ποΈseverityβ the severity of the CVE. how bad are we talking. πaffected_versionsβ ranges of CPAN affected versions. aka which versions need to be in their flop era. πcvesβ a list of CVEs. plural. a whole squad of them. π―ββοΈreferencesβ a list of references (URLs). receipts, links, sources. πreleasesβ a list of CPAN releases. πversionsβ an extracted list of existing CPAN releases. yes it's different fromreleases, don't @ me, that's just what it says. β
π AUTHORS π
the masterminds. the icons. the ones who built this. β¨
- Sawyer X
<xsawyerx@cpan.org> - Mickey Nasriachi
<mickey@cpan.org>
π COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE π
This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Sawyer X.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
so basically: it's free, go wild, just respect the same terms as Perl 5 itself. periodt. π
and that's the whole page, bestie! π«Ά this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-07-05, living in the MetaCP...nt::Cve(3pm) era. thanks for reading, mwah πβ¨π
π¦ where this page comes from
- ubuntu stonking: libmetacpan-client-perl 2.044000-1 Β· Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms