CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-7040
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-27
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-122, CWE-176
Description
Text::Minify::XS versions from 0.3.0 before 0.7.8 for Perl have a heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters.
The minify functions mishandled some malformed UTF-8 characters, leading to heap corruption.
Note that the minify_utf8 function is an alias for minify.
Affected configurations
• rrwo text\ \ (>= 0.3.0 < 0.7.8)
Related
References
- https://github.com/robrwo/Text-Minify-XS/security/advisories/GHSA-jqhf-vv4h-77h2 Third Party Advisory
- https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Text-Minify-XS-v0.7.8/changes Product, Release Notes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/27/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory