CVE-2026-7040

Text::Minify::XS versions from 0.3.0 before 0.7.8 for Perl have heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Apr 27, 2026
Updated: May 1, 2026
Reserved: Apr 25, 2026

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Description

Text::Minify::XS versions from 0.3.0 before 0.7.8 for Perl have a heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters.

The minify functions mishandled some malformed UTF-8 characters, leading to heap corruption.

Note that the minify_utf8 function is an alias for minify.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-176 Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Text::Minify::XSRRWO	0.3.0 to before 0.7.8Affected

References

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