CVE-2026-110674: Cpanel-JSON-XS (Perl module) · Type Confusion
Affects Cpanel-JSON-XS (Perl module)Source CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.5 Medium : upgrade to 4.80 when convenient.
Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 19:15 UTC
Thin evidence
One scorer or none| CISA-ADP | CVSS 3.1 | 6.5 |
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- 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:HExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 19 Oct 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by 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
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
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| Cpanel-JSON-XS | Affected
| Fixed in
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CPANCpanel-JSON-XSpkg:cpan/Cpanel-JSON-XSOther threats | Affected
| Fixed in
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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.