GHSA-38xx-2hm6-vh7qHighCVSS 7.3

YAML versions before 1.27_001 for Perl allow a loaded perl/glob document to replace any package...

Published
October 5, 2026
Last Modified
October 6, 2026

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📋 Description

YAML versions before 1.27_001 for Perl allow a loaded perl/glob document to replace any package variable, which can lead to arbitrary code execution.

A perl/glob document names a package and a symbol, and supplies the value assigned to it. Nothing restricts the name, so the target can be @INC or YAML's own load options.

A perl/glob document that sets $YAML::LoadCode or $YAML::UseCode turns on code loading, which is off by default, for every later Load() in the process. A perl/code document is then passed to a string eval, so an attacker who supplies two documents to separate Load() calls in one process can execute arbitrary Perl code.

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