CVE-2026-5089
Deferred
Deferred - Pending Action
BaseFortify
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-5089, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-05-12
Last updated on: 2026-05-14
Assigner: CPANSec
Description
Description
YAML::Syck versions before 1.38 for Perl has an out-of-bounds read.
The base60 (sexagesimal) parsing code in perl_syck.h has a buffer underflow bug in both int#base60 and float#base60 handlers. When processing the leftmost segment of a colon-separated value (e.g., the 1 in 1:30:45), the inner while loop can decrement a pointer past the start of the string buffer:
while ( colon >= ptr && *colon != ':' )
{
colon--;
}
if ( *colon == ':' ) *colon = '\0'; // colon may be ptr-1 here
When no colon is found (final/leftmost segment), colon becomes ptr-1, and the subsequent *colon dereference reads one byte before the allocated buffer.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Currently, no data is known.
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-124 | The product writes to a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location prior to the beginning of the buffer. |
