VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-7040

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-04-27
Last modified2026-10-26
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e: CWE-122

Primary references