CVE-2026-9698

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Publication date:

09/06/2026

Last modified:

23/07/2026

Description

DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl saved errors in a limited-sized buffer.<br /> <br /> Error messages that were returned when RaiseError, PrintError or HandleError were set were written to a 200-byte buffer without a length limit.<br /> <br /> Attackers that can influence the error text in an application can trigger a buffer overflow.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High