CVE-2026-57074: critical vulnerability in CODECHILD XML::Bare
XML::Bare versions through 0.53 for Perl have an unbounded character lookahead
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.1epss 0.6%
XML::Bare versions through 0.53 for Perl have an unbounded character lookahead.
The parserc_parse function attempts to check for multicharacter strings such as "<![CDATA" or element terminators such as ">" without checking that the offsets are within the buffer.
Truncated strings such as "<a/" can trigger an out-of-bounds read.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Affected products
CODECHILD · XML::BareRelated CVEs — CODECHILD XML::Bare
In the same product, most dangerous first.