# CVE-2026-7040

> Vulnerability · severity: **HIGH** (CVSS 7.5).

## Description

Text::Minify::XS versions from 0.3.0 before 0.7.8 for Perl have a heap overflow when processing some malformed UTF-8 characters.

The minify functions mishandled some malformed UTF-8 characters, leading to heap corruption.

Note that the minify_utf8 function is an alias for minify.

## Key facts

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-7040
- **Published:** 2026-04-27
- **CVSS severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS base score:** 7.5
- **CWE codes:** CWE-122, CWE-176

## Affected products

- `rrwo:text\`

## Primary sources

- NIST NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7040

## Citation

> AI Analytics. CVE-2026-7040. Retrieved 2026-07-12 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/cve/CVE-2026-7040. Derived from NIST NVD. Licensed CC0.

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