CVE-2026-9538

highpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.005 · 44 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.52% (44th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

12 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Archive::Tar versions before 3.10 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via attacker controlled entry size field in tar header. _read_tar() reads each entry's payload with $handle->read($$data, $block), where $block is derived from the entry's 12-byte size field in the tar header with no upper bound on that value. A crafted header declaring a multi-gigabyte size causes Perl to allocate a scalar of that size.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.9–7.5

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondaryexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-789US

affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
IBM QRadar SIEMall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:qradar_siem:-
IBM Security Verify Accessall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:security_verify_access:-
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
RESF Rocky Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:resf:rocky_linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
SUSE openSUSEall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:opensuse:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
BINGOS Archive::Tar0 → 3.10enisa_euvdEU
archive::tar project archive::tar< 3.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:archive\:\:tar_project:archive\:\:tar:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-2588Red Hat Enterprise Linux (perl-Archive-Tar, httplib2): Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of ServiceDeutsch2026-07-29csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-05-26modified 2026-07-23

references (9)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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