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CVE-2026-14740: dbi before 1.650 (exclusive); +1 more affected products
CVE-2026-14740. CVSS 3.1 base score 9.1 (CRITICAL, Source advisory). EPSS 0.00661 (percentile 0.51329), scored 25-Oct-2026.
Affected technology
dbi · before 1.650 (exclusive)
perl
DBI · 0 to before 1.650
HMBRAND
Description’s affected range: versions before 1.650 for Perl read one byte out-of-bounds in preparse when deleting an initial SQL comment
Component: Not specified by the source
Function: preparse
File: DBI.xs
Attack conditions (Source advisory, CVSS 3.1): Network (remote) · No privileges required · No user interaction required
What an attacker can do
Source advisory’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 9.1/10) rates confidentiality and availability impact as high; integrity impact as none. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.
- CWE
- CWE-125
- CCR priority
- 36.6 /100 (P4)
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.1 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H · Source advisory
- EPSS
- 0.00661 · percentile 0.51329 · 2026-10-25
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-25 21:44:36.062275+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-14740.html