CVE-2026-57074

critical · 9.1

XML::Bare versions through 0.53 for Perl have an unbounded character lookahead. The parserc_parse function attempts to check for multicharacter strings such as "<![CDATA" or element terminators such as ">" without checking that the offsets are within the buffer. Truncated strings such as "<a/" can trigger an out-of-bounds read.

9.1

CVSS

0.4%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

33rd

EPSS percentile

2026-07-16

Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-125

References

https://github.com/nanoscopic/perl-XML-Bare/pull/1
https://security.metacpan.org/patches/X/XML-Bare/0.53/CVE-2026-57074-r1.patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/16/1

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-57074