CVE-2026-10879

CRITICAL
INFO Priority: 0.05 BB Relevance: 80/100
Published: 2026-06-05 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: High

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
perl dbi < 1.648

Bug Bounty Relevance

80 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

9.8 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.48%
Raw Score 0.004850
Percentile 41.7%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00485
2026-10-28
0.00485

Intelligence Sources

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