# CVE-2026-110674: Cpanel::JSON::XS versions from 4.33 before 4.80 for Perl miss duplicate non-ASCII bare keys, allowing type confusion under dupkeys\_as\_arrayref in decode\_hv

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.80
- Published: 2026-10-19 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Affected

- Cpanel-JSON-XS: from 4.33, fixed in 4.80

## Description

Cpanel::JSON::XS versions from 4.33 before 4.80 for Perl miss duplicate non-ASCII bare keys, allowing type confusion under dupkeys_as_arrayref in decode_hv. With allow_barekey, which relaxed enables, a bare key containing a non-ASCII byte is stored as UTF-8 but looked up as raw bytes, so a repeated key escapes the duplicate-key check and replaces the earlier value. From 4.41, under dupkeys_as_arrayref, a bare repeat replaces the array that collects a key's values with a plain value, and the next quoted repeat pushes onto that value as if it were an array. A JSON integer there is dereferenced as a pointer. Untrusted JSON decoded with relaxed and dupkeys_as_arrayref can crash the process or dereference an address chosen by a JSON number.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cpanel-JSON-XS, upgrade to a fixed version (4.80) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/rurban/Cpanel-JSON-XS/commit/c52037857d6a99d96ebd1ce3e2fa769505f028cf.patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80/changes
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9334

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