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ubuntu-cve-2025-15646

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2026-07-01 16:16

Modified

2026-07-09 15:10

Summary

Details

HTML::Gumbo versions before 0.19 for Perl disclose heap memory via type confusion. Support for the element was added to libgumbo 0.10.0 in 2015, but the walk_tree function in lib/HTML/Gumbo.xs was not updated to support it. The element was treated as a text-node, where strlen() over-reads the heap block that the pointer addresses. Any caller that runs parse() with the default format => 'string', or with format => 'tree', on input containing a element serializes the over-read bytes into the returned result, disclosing bounded heap contents. format => 'callback' reaches a croak on the unhandled node type and is unaffected.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-15646	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-15646	REPORT
	https://github.com/ruz/HTML-Gumbo/issues/6	REPORT
	https://github.com/bestpractical/html-gumbo/commi…	REPORT

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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15646",
  "modified": "2026-07-09T15:10:16Z",
  "published": "2026-07-01T16:16:00Z",
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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CVE-2025-15646 (GCVE-0-2025-15646)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-01 14:38 – Updated: 2026-07-01 18:09

Title

HTML::Gumbo versions before 0.19 for Perl disclose heap memory via type confusion

Summary

HTML::Gumbo versions before 0.19 for Perl disclose heap memory via type confusion. Support for the <template> element was added to libgumbo 0.10.0 in 2015, but the walk_tree function in lib/HTML/Gumbo.xs was not updated to support it. The element was treated as a text-node, where strlen() over-reads the heap block that the pointer addresses. Any caller that runs parse() with the default format => 'string', or with format => 'tree', on input containing a <template> element serializes the over-read bytes into the returned result, disclosing bounded heap contents. format => 'callback' reaches a croak on the unhandled node type and is unaffected.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type (Type Confusion)
CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner

CPANSec

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/bestpractical/HTML-Gumbo/commi…	patch
https://metacpan.org/release/BPS/HTML-Gumbo-0.19/…	release-notes
https://bugs.debian.org/1104789	issue-tracking
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/01/7

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
BPS	HTML::Gumbo	Affected: 0 , < 0.19 (custom)

Credits

Vincent Lefevre Niko Tyni

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2025-15646 (GCVE-0-2025-15646)

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