CVE-2026-48959

CVE-2026-48959: IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward

Vendor Pmqs
Product IO::Uncompress::Unzip
Weakness CWE-407
Published May 27, 2026
Last update May 29, 2026

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

IO::Uncompress::Unzip versions before 2.220 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via per-byte read loop in fastForward. fastForward() compares length $offset (the digit count of the offset, 1 to 19) against the chunk size $c instead of $offset itself, so $c shrinks from 16 KiB to 1-19 bytes per iteration. Extracting a named entry from an attacker supplied zip via IO::Uncompress::Unzip->new($zip, Name => $target) drives a per-byte read loop scaling with the entry's compressed size, up to the non-Zip64 4 GiB cap.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 27, 2026 CVE published
May 29, 2026 Record updated