Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-10879
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 16.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8