CPANSA-Text-CSV_XS-2026-110752: Text-CSV_XS vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2026-10-16T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.26
Current release date 2026-10-16T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 7.5 Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl allow memory exhaustion by allocating one entry per index of an RFC 7111 selector in fragment.

fragment expands a row= or col= selector into an array with one element per selected index before it reads any data, and it does not clamp an explicit end column in a cell= selector to the row. Only the syntax and order of the ranges are checked, so row=1-400000000 on a two-line file allocates 400 million elements.

An application that passes a request-supplied fragment to fragment or csv can be made to exhaust memory, which ends the process with an Out of memory error that eval cannot catch.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-110752

Vulnerability Description

Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl allow memory exhaustion by allocating one entry per index of an RFC 7111 selector in fragment.

fragment expands a row= or col= selector into an array with one element per selected index before it reads any data, and it does not clamp an explicit end column in a cell= selector to the row. Only the syntax and order of the ranges are checked, so row=1-400000000 on a two-line file allocates 400 million elements.

An application that passes a request-supplied fragment to fragment or csv can be made to exhaust memory, which ends the process with an Out of memory error that eval cannot catch.

Weakness CWE-770 : Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Text-CSV_XS less than 1.65
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 7.5 High
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 2026 First release

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