Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-7040
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 17.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-7040