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critical 9.1

CVE-2026-14740 json

DBI versions before 1.650 for Perl read one byte out-of-bounds in preparse when deleting an initial SQL comment

published 4mo ago modified 15d ago also EUVD-2026-42125

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

DBI versions before 1.650 for Perl read one byte out-of-bounds in preparse when deleting an initial SQL comment.

The preparse method normalises SQL and removes comments. When the SQL starts with a comment line, the deletion of that line during normalisation led to an out-of-bounds read by one byte. The result is a fault on memory-hardened builds and nondeterministic newline retention on normal builds.

Patch / fix

  • HMBRAND DBI 1.650
  • libdbi-perl Debian 12 1.643-4+deb12u2
  • libdbi-perl Debian 13 1.652-2~deb13u1
  • libdbi-perl Debian 14 1.650-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-14740

  • perl-DBI SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES 15 SP6-LTSS, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 1.647.0-150600.12.18.1
  • perl-DBI SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS +5 more 1.642-150200.3.19.1
  • perl-DBI SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 1.647.0-160000.4.1
  • perl-DBI SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 1.628-5.21.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:3461-1SUSE-SU-2026:3415-1SUSE-SU-2026:3283-1SUSE-SU-2026:22592-1SUSE-SU-2026:22623-1

  • perl-DBI openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.647.0-160000.4.1
  • perl-DBI openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.650.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21293-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11234-1

  • perl-dbi Alpine 3.24 1.651-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-14740

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • perl-DBI Azure Linux 3.0 1.650-1

azure linux advisories AZL-92208

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-14740 updated cvss 5.0

DBI: DBI for Perl: Out-of-bounds read in SQL comment processing

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perl-DBI Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl-DBI
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perl-DBI Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 perl-DBI Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 perl-DBI
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
4mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • HMBRAND DBI

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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