CVE-2026-8463: Leont crypt::argon2

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Crypt::Argon2 versions from 0.017 before 0.031 for Perl perform a heap out-of-bounds read in argon2_verify on empty encoded input. The auto-detect form of argon2_verify passes encoded_len - 1 as the length argument to memchr without checking that encoded_len is non-zero. When the encoded string is empty, the size_t subtraction underflows to SIZE_MAX and memchr scans adjacent heap memory looking for a '$' separator byte. A caller that invokes argon2_verify against a stored hash that may legitimately be empty (for example a placeholder row or a NULL column materialised as an empty string) reads out-of-bounds heap memory, which can crash the process or leak the position of an adjacent '$' byte into subsequent parsing.

Affected products

• Leont crypt::argon2: from 0.017, before 0.031 (fixed in 0.031)

Published 2026-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.