CVE-2026-110759 PUBLISHED

Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl return a 0xFF byte that is not in the input for an empty last field followed by a lone CR in parse

Assigner: CPANSec
Reserved: 14.10.2026 Published: 16.10.2026 Updated: 16.10.2026

Text::CSV_XS versions before 1.65 for Perl return a 0xFF byte that is not in the input for an empty last field followed by a lone CR in parse.

When the input to parse ends in a separator and a lone CR, the parser treats the end of the input as the next character and stores the end-of-file marker in the field as the byte 0xFF. With binary set, parse("a,\r") returns the fields "a" and "\xFF". On UTF-8 flagged input the last field is a UTF-8 flagged string holding that lone byte, which is malformed UTF-8. The same input with a non-empty last field is rejected as an error.

A CRLF file read line by line and chomped ends this way when its last column is empty, so the application receives a byte that is not in its input.

Product Status

Package Collection https://cpan.org/modules
Package Name Text-CSV_XS
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.65 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to Text-CSV_XS 1.65 or later.

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-1286 Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input CWE