CVE-2026-78183

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-23. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.7%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

Upgrade to version 3.21.1 or later (from the CVE record's solution, CPAN Security Group) — apply it.

DBD::Pg version 3.21.0 for Perl has a heap out-of-bounds write in quote_float.

quote_float() allocates the length of the string + 1, which is the size of the bare numeric symbol plus NULL. But for special literals NaN, Inf, +Inf, -Inf, Infinity, +Infinity, -Infinity it emits the literal surrounded by quotes plus NULL, which is length + 3 bytes. Every recognised literal (case-insensitive) overflows by 2 bytes, a single quote and a NULL.

This can be reached by the $dbh->quote method, for example

$dbh->quote( "Infinity", DBI::SQL_NUMERIC ).

This regression was introduced in 3.21.0 by the quote.c rewrite.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
59
EG Risk 59/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
The EG Score, 9.8 of 10.
Exploitation0.7% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: Upgrade to version 3.21.1 or later (from the CVE record's solution, CPAN Security Group). Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
50th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

Upgrade to version 3.21.1 or later (from the CVE record's solution, CPAN Security Group). Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 23, 2026

Last Modified

August 26, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Oct 8, 2026
Fix named in the CVE record's solution (CPAN Security Group). Sources: github_commit.
Web page

oss-security - CVE-2026-78183: DBD::Pg version 3.21.0 for Perl has a heap out-of-bounds write in quote_float

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/23/5
GitHub commit

commit adacf1de8723 (bucardo/dbdpg)

Fix landed in bucardo/dbdpg commit adacf1de8723 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/bucardo/dbdpg/commit/adacf1de872326a465e13f9e4281a674ebcd227e

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-78183(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 187× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 354 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 254 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-14 09:02 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-14 09:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  4. 2026-10-13 05:44 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-13 05:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  7. 2026-10-12 15:36 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-12 05:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  12. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
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  14. 2026-10-10 13:22 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-10 13:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  17. 2026-10-09 05:05 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-09 05:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  20. 2026-10-08 08:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  22. 2026-10-08 04:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  24. 2026-10-07 08:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-10-07 01:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  2. 2026-10-06 21:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-06 16:42 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-06 16:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  6. 2026-10-06 12:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  9. 2026-10-06 02:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  11. 2026-10-05 17:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  16. 2026-10-05 01:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  18. 2026-10-04 20:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  25. 2026-10-03 16:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  27. 2026-10-03 05:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  31. 2026-10-02 18:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  37. 2026-10-01 21:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  44. 2026-09-30 20:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  47. 2026-09-30 07:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  49. 2026-09-29 15:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6mq2-jf7v-pvjx · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-78183?
CVE-2026-78183 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 23, 2026. DBD::Pg version 3.21.0 for Perl has a heap out-of-bounds write in quote_float. quote_float() allocates the length of the string + 1, which is the size of the bare numeric symbol plus NULL. But for special literals NaN, Inf, +Inf, -Inf, Infinity, +Infinity, -Infinity it emits the literal surrounded…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-78183 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-78183 was published on August 23, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 26, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-78183 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-78183 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (50th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-78183?
CVE-2026-78183 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-78183?
The CVE record's solution for CVE-2026-78183, written by its CNA CPAN Security Group, names the fix: "Upgrade to version 3.21.1 or later." The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-78183 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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