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Critical 9.8Published Jul 1, 2026

CVE-2025-15646HTML::Gumbo versions before 0.19 for Perl disclose heap memory via type confusion

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

HTML::Gumbo versions before 0.19 for Perl disclose heap memory via type confusion. Support for the <template> element was added to libgumbo 0.10.0 in 2015, but the walk_tree function in lib/HTML/Gumbo.xs was not updated to support it. The element was treated as a text-node, where strlen() over-reads the heap block that the pointer addresses. Any caller that runs parse() with the default format => 'string', or with format => 'tree', on input containing a <template> element serializes the over-read bytes into the returned result, disclosing bounded heap contents. format => 'callback' reaches a croak on the unhandled node type and is unaffected.

CVSS
9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-843, CWE-125
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
CPANSec
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
Jul 1, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
BPS HTML::Gumbo
bps:html_gumbo (from the name)
before 0.19
CNA record

References

References

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