CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.
Public Exploit Signal
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CVE
CVE-2026-7040
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.44%
Original NVD 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.
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