Critical 9.8Published Jul 7, 2026

CVE-2026-14739DBI versions before 1.650 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with an extreme number of placeholders

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 9:30 AM ET)

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DBI versions before 1.650 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with an extreme number of placeholders. The fix for CVE-2026-10879 did not allocate enough memory to handle approximately 1.2-million placeholders. DBI version 1.650 sets a hard limit of 99,999 placeholders.

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-787
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: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jul 8, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

HMBRAND DBI hmbrand:dbi (from the name)	before 1.650	CNA record
perl dbi perl:dbi	before 1.650	NVD

References

https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/2b77c88b655e9539a592c71a61fb965fc0075395.patchpatch
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-10879vendor-advisory, related, not-applicable
https://metacpan.org/release/HMBRAND/DBI-1.650/changesrelease-notes

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