CVE-2026-4177
CRITICALYAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6470
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8311
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4177
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448277
Patch patch
https://github.com/cpan-authors/YAML-Syck/commit/e8844a31c8cf0052914b198fc784ed4e6b8ae69e.patch
Release Notes release-notes
https://metacpan.org/release/TODDR/YAML-Syck-1.37_01/changes#L21
Scores
CVSS v3
9.1
EPSS
0.0043
EPSS Percentile
35.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-120
CWE-122
Status
published
Products (2)
TODDR/YAML::Syck
< 1.36
toddr/yaml\
< 1.37
Published
Mar 16, 2026
Tracked Since
Mar 17, 2026