The tomlc99 library is no longer maintained, and has an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability publicly reported in the issue tracker.
Any caller that passes untrusted TOML to from_toml risks a stack overflow from a deeply-nested document.
TOML::XS version 0.06 or later uses the successor tomlc17 library.
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Vendor Solution
Upgrade to TOML::XS version 0.06 or later.
Vendor Workaround
Only parse trusted TOML files.
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| Description | TOML::XS versions before 0.06 for Perl bundle an unsupported and vulnerable version of tomlc99. The tomlc99 library is no longer maintained, and has an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability publicly reported in the issue tracker. Any caller that passes untrusted TOML to from_toml risks a stack overflow from a deeply-nested document. TOML::XS version 0.06 or later uses the successor tomlc17 library. | |
| Title | TOML::XS versions before 0.06 for Perl bundle an unsupported and vulnerable version of tomlc99 | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1104 CWE-1395 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CPANSec
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-27T17:15:54.188Z
Reserved: 2026-07-22T16:37:55.533Z
Link: CVE-2026-16634
Updated: 2026-07-24T13:32:08.478Z
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