CVE-2026-5089: Toddr Yaml::syck

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

YAML::Syck versions before 1.38 for Perl has an out-of-bounds read. The base60 (sexagesimal) parsing code in perl_syck.h has a buffer underflow bug in both int#base60 and float#base60 handlers. When processing the leftmost segment of a colon-separated value (e.g., the 1 in 1:30:45), the inner while loop can decrement a pointer past the start of the string buffer: while ( colon >= ptr && *colon != ':' ) { colon--; } if ( *colon == ':' ) *colon = '\0'; // colon may be ptr-1 here When no colon is found (final/leftmost segment), colon becomes ptr-1, and the subsequent *colon dereference reads one byte before the allocated buffer.

Affected products

• Toddr Yaml::syck: before 1.38 (fixed in 1.38)

Published 2026-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.