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 3.19.1 (CRITICAL)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS0.50% probability of exploitation · percentile 38.7% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z
Published2026-03-16
Last modified2026-03-23

Underlying weaknesses· 1

CWE-122

References

  1. https://github.com/cpan-authors/YAML-Syck/commit/e8844a31c8cf0052914b198fc784ed4e6b8ae69e.patch
  2. https://metacpan.org/release/TODDR/YAML-Syck-1.37_01/changes#L21
  3. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/16/6

1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessHeap-based Buffer Overflowcwe-1220%live

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