CVE-2026-7040

high
Published 2026-04-27 ยท Modified 2026-05-07
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Text::Minify::XS versions from 0.3.0 before 0.7.8 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 minify.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
rrwotext\{"startIncluding":"0.3.0","endExcluding":"0.7.8"}0.7.8

References

CWEs

CWE-122 CWE-176

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.