CVE-2026-57074 (GCVE-0-2026-57074)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-16 16:15 – Updated: 2026-07-17 18:07
VLAI
Title
XML::Bare versions through 0.53 for Perl have an unbounded character lookahead
Summary
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.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
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Vendor Product Version
CODECHILD XML::Bare Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.53 (custom)
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