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CVE-2026-14739

DBI versions before 1.650 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with an extreme number of placeholders.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 0.41%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.41%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

DBI versions before 1.650 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with an extreme number of placeholders. The fix for CVE-2026-10879 did not allocate enough memory to handle approximately 1.2-million placeholders. DBI version 1.650 sets a hard limit of 99,999 placeholders.

CVSS 3.1: 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.41% probability · 35th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-787
Affected: perl/dbi
Source: 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

References

https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/2b77c88b655e9539a592c71a61fb965fc0075395.patchPatch
https://metacpan.org/release/HMBRAND/DBI-1.650/changesRelease Notes
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-10879Not Applicable

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.