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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:44:55 +0200
From: Stig Palmquist <stig@...g.io>
To: cve-announce@...urity.metacpan.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2026-40198: Net::CIDR::Lite versions before 0.23 for Perl does
not validate IPv6 group count, which may allow IP ACL bypass
========================================================================
CVE-2026-40198 CPAN Security Group
========================================================================
CVE ID: CVE-2026-40198
Distribution: Net-CIDR-Lite
Versions: before 0.23
MetaCPAN: https://metacpan.org/dist/Net-CIDR-Lite
VCS Repo: https://github.com/stigtsp/Net-CIDR-Lite
Net::CIDR::Lite versions before 0.23 for Perl does not validate IPv6
group count, which may allow IP ACL bypass
Description
-----------
Net::CIDR::Lite versions before 0.23 for Perl does not validate IPv6
group count, which may allow IP ACL bypass.
_pack_ipv6() does not check that uncompressed IPv6 addresses (without
::) have exactly 8 hex groups. Inputs like "abcd", "1:2:3", or
"1:2:3:4:5:6:7" are accepted and produce packed values of wrong length
(3, 7, or 15 bytes instead of 17).
The packed values are used internally for mask and comparison
operations. find() and bin_find() use Perl string comparison (lt/gt) on
these values, and comparing strings of different lengths gives wrong
results. This can cause find() to incorrectly report an address as
inside or outside a range.
Example:
my $cidr = Net::CIDR::Lite->new("::/8");
$cidr->find("1:2:3"); # invalid input, incorrectly returns true
This is the same class of input validation issue as CVE-2021-47154
(IPv4 leading zeros) previously fixed in this module.
See also CVE-2026-40199, a related issue in the same function affecting
IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses.
Problem types
-------------
- CWE-1286 Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input
Solutions
---------
Upgrade to version 0.23 or newer, or apply the patch provided.
References
----------
https://github.com/stigtsp/Net-CIDR-Lite/commit/25d65f85dbe4885959a10471725ec9d250a589c3.patch
https://metacpan.org/release/STIGTSP/Net-CIDR-Lite-0.23/changes
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40199
Timeline
--------
- 2026-04-09: Vulnerability found
- 2026-04-10: Net-CIDR-Lite version 0.23 released
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