CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-9334
7.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-06-03
- Last modified
- 2026-07-21
- Assigner
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-843
Description
Cpanel::JSON::XS versions before 4.41 for Perl allow type confusion via duplicate object keys when dupkeys_as_arrayref is enabled.
decode_hv() collapses duplicate object keys into an array reference under dupkeys_as_arrayref. The branch reached for a duplicate key tests `SvTYPE (old_value) != SVt_RV && SvTYPE (SvRV (old_value)) != SVt_PVAV`, which evaluates SvRV(old_value) before establishing that old_value is a reference. When the existing value is a plain scalar rather than an array reference, a non-reference scalar is dereferenced as a reference.
A caller decoding untrusted JSON with dupkeys_as_arrayref enabled is crashed, and the incompatible access follows a pointer taken from attacker controlled scalar contents.
Affected configurations
• rurban cpanel\ \ (< 4.41)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type weakness
References
- https://github.com/rurban/Cpanel-JSON-XS/commit/11a7c550a0d8fac2f84414f24d5df9b2bfe346e2.patch Patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.41/changes Release Notes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/03/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory