CVE-2026-8721

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8721

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-8721.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-8721

Downstream

Published

2026-05-17T18:51:41Z

Modified

2026-10-21T03:00:35Z

Severity

9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 versions through 1.94 for Perl truncates passwords with embedded NULLs

Details

Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 versions through 1.94 for Perl truncates passwords with embedded NULLs.

Password parameters in PKCS12.xs are declared char *, which routes through Perl's default typemap to SvPV_nolen. The Perl length is discarded.

The C code (or OpenSSL internally) calls strlen() on the buffer. Any password byte at or after the first NULL is silently dropped. Binary / KDF-derived / HMAC-derived passwords lose entropy without any warnings.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "CPANSec",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-170"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/8xxx/CVE-2026-8721.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/dsully/perl-crypt-openssl-pkcs12

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/dsully/perl-crypt-openssl-pkcs12

Events

Introduced

Last Affected

621d94a6d389f043ecb00bcea5e75e7a1783d34e

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "1.94"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StandardRange"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*

0.10

0.9

1.*

1.0

1.1

1.10

1.11

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

1.6

1.7

1.8

1.9

1.91

1.92

1.93

1.94

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-8721.json"