CVE-2026-14740

critical · 9.1

DBI versions before 1.650 for Perl read one byte out-of-bounds in preparse when deleting an initial SQL comment. The preparse method normalises SQL and removes comments. When the SQL starts with a comment line, the deletion of that line during normalisation led to an out-of-bounds read by one byte. The result is a fault on memory-hardened builds and nondeterministic newline retention on normal builds.

9.1

CVSS

0.4%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

33rd

EPSS percentile

2026-07-07

Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-125

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
perl	dbi	< 1.650

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References

https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/fc16f9e8b3dd5c65caf1867781ab2bfe2fadcc01.patch
https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/security/advisories/GHSA-35f4-f8m9-w8xg
https://metacpan.org/release/HMBRAND/DBI-1.650/changes
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/07/17

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-14740