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CVE-2026-8177

Medium

Elevated severity or exploit probability.

CVSS base
7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.9%
57.4th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-125
Published 2026-05-10 · modified 2026-09-18

Description

XML::LibXML versions through 2.0210 for Perl read out-of-bounds heap memory when parsing XML node names containing truncated UTF-8 byte sequences. A node name ending in the middle of a multi byte UTF-8 sequence causes the parser to read past the end of the input string into adjacent heap memory. Any Perl process that passes attacker controlled strings to XML::LibXML's DOM node-name methods can reach this path on the default API. The likely consequence is a crash, causing denial of service.

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org