CVE-2026-4177CRITICAL 9.1EPSS p38.7%
CVE-2026-4177CVE-2026-4177
Description
YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter.
The heap overflow occurs when class names exceed the initial 512-byte allocation.
The base64 decoder could read past the buffer end on trailing newlines.
strtok mutated n->type_id in place, corrupting shared node data.
A memory leak occurred in syck_hdlr_add_anchor when a node already had an anchor. The incoming anchor string 'a' was leaked on early return.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 9.1 (CRITICAL) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.50% probability of exploitation · percentile 38.7% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z |
| Published | 2026-03-16 |
| Last modified | 2026-03-23 |
Underlying weaknesses· 1
References
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Heap-based Buffer Overflowcwe-122 | 0% | live |
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