CVE-2026-88815EPSS p7.2%
CVE-2026-88815CVE-2026-88815
Description
DBI versions before 1.654 for Perl incorrectly treat numeric values as strings in sql_type_cast_svpv.
When casting to SQL_NUMERIC, sql_type_cast_svpv passes the string pointer and length of the SV to grok_number without stringifying it first. An integer (IV) or floating-point (NV) value has no valid string pointer, so grok_number reads from an invalid address, triggering a segmentation fault.
This is reachable in Perl using the sql_type_cast function:
my $num = 42;
DBI::sql_type_cast( $num, DBI::SQL_NUMERIC, 0 );
Scoring
| CVSS | 6.2 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.18% probability of exploitation · percentile 7.2% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-30 |