CVE-2026-7040 in Text::Minify::XS

Resumen

por MITRE • 2026-04-27

Text::Minify::XS versions from v0.3.0 before v0.7.8 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 minnify.

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• Responsable: CPANSec
• Reservar: 2026-04-25
• Divulgación: 2026-04-27
• Moderación: aceptado
• Artículo: VDB-359790
• CPE: listo
• CWE: CWE-176 (confirmado)
• CVSS: 7.3 (VulDB)
• EPSS: 0.00054
• KEV: no
• Actividades: muy bajo

Fuentes

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-7040
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7040
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-7040/