CVE-2026-10879 | DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl have a heap overflow when… | CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL

Description

DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with more than 9 binders. The preparse method expands SQL placeholder characters to numbered binders of the form :pN, but only allocates three characters per binder in the buffer. Placeholders 10-99 require four characters, 100-999 require five characters, et cetera.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2026-10879
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CPANSec
Reserved: 2026-06-04 16:34 UTC
Published: 2026-06-05 14:30 UTC
Last updated: 2026-06-08 16:55 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-787
CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write)
Vendor / Product: HMBRAND / DBI
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

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

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
HMBRAND	DBI	—	0 < 1.648

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-787	cna	CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write)

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
9.8	CRITICAL	3.1	adp	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)