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CVE-2026-110674: Cpanel-JSON-XS (Perl module) · Type Confusion

Affects Cpanel-JSON-XS (Perl module)Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.5 Medium : upgrade to 4.80 when convenient.

Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 19:15 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
6.5Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CISA-ADPCVSS 3.16.5
EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 9% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 4.80
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 19 Oct 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade Cpanel-JSON-XS (Perl module) to 4.80.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Cpanel-JSON-XSAffected
  • >=4.33 <4.80
Fixed in
  • 4.80
CPANCpanel-JSON-XSpkg:cpan/Cpanel-JSON-XSOther threatsAffected
  • >=4.33 <4.80
Fixed in
  • 4.80

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AI-suggested

Upgrade Cpanel::JSON::XS to version 4.80 or later, where this vulnerability is fixed. Avoid using relaxed parsing options such as allow_barekey and dupkeys_as_arrayref with untrusted JSON data until the upgrade is applied.

Description

Cpanel::JSON::XS versions from 4.33 before 4.80 for Perl miss duplicate non-ASCII bare keys, allowing type confusion under dupkeys_as_arrayref in decode_hv. With allow_barekey, which relaxed enables, a bare key containing a non-ASCII byte is stored as UTF-8 but looked up as raw bytes, so a repeated key escapes the duplicate-key check and replaces the earlier value. From 4.41, under dupkeys_as_arrayref, a bare repeat replaces the array that collects a key's values with a plain value, and the next quoted repeat pushes onto that value as if it were an array. A JSON integer there is dereferenced as a pointer. Untrusted JSON decoded with relaxed and dupkeys_as_arrayref can crash the process or dereference an address chosen by a JSON number.

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