CVE-2026-9698: high-severity vulnerability in HMBRAND DBI
DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl saved errors in a limited-sized buffer
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.5%
DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl saved errors in a limited-sized buffer.
Error messages that were returned when RaiseError, PrintError or HandleError were set were written to a 200-byte buffer without a length limit.
Attackers that can influence the error text in an application can trigger a buffer overflow.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
HMBRAND · DBIRelated CVEs — HMBRAND DBI
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-60082CRITICALDBI versions before 1.651 for Perl do not enforce statement handle consistency with the rowEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-10879CRITICALDBI versions before 1.648 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with more than 9 bindersEPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-14739CRITICALDBI versions before 1.650 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with an extreme number of placeholdersEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-14740CRITICALDBI versions before 1.650 for Perl read one byte out-of-bounds in preparse when deleting an initial SQL commentEPSS 0.4%
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:38512https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:38513https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:38901https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53371https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:62667https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-9698https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2486734https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/bfe5d73c162d2d1f761a639a0aa33aad6a9eb54e.patchhttps://metacpan.org/release/HMBRAND/DBI-1.648/changeshttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-9698.jsonhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/06/09/9