YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.1epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 65% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter.
The heap overflow occurs when class names exceed the initial 512-byte allocation.
The base64 decoder could read past the buffer end on trailing newlines.
strtok mutated n->type_id in place, corrupting shared node data.
A memory leak occurred in syck_hdlr_add_anchor when a node already had an anchor. The incoming anchor string 'a' was leaked on early return.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Affected products
TODDR · YAML::SyckReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6470https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8311https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4177https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448277https://github.com/cpan-authors/YAML-Syck/commit/e8844a31c8cf0052914b198fc784ed4e6b8ae69e.patchhttps://metacpan.org/release/TODDR/YAML-Syck-1.37_01/changes#L21https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-4177.jsonhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/16/6