CVE-2026-14739: Perl Dbi

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

DBI versions before 1.650 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with an extreme number of placeholders. The fix for CVE-2026-10879 did not allocate enough memory to handle approximately 1.2-million placeholders. DBI version 1.650 sets a hard limit of 99,999 placeholders.

Affected products

• Perl Dbi: before 1.650 (fixed in 1.650)

Published 2026-07-07. Last modified 2026-07-10.