# CVE-2026-88816: DBI versions before 1.654 for Perl incorrectly treat numeric values as strings in FetchHashKeyName

- Also known as: GHSA-F4QX-MR9M-Q2HQ
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.654
- Published: 2026-09-28 · Updated: 2026-09-30

## Affected

- DBI: fixed in 1.654

## Description

DBI versions before 1.654 for Perl incorrectly treat numeric values as strings in FetchHashKeyName. fetchrow_hashref uses the string pointer of the FetchHashKeyName attribute as the key name without stringifying it first. When FetchHashKeyName has been set to an integer (IV) or floating-point (NV) value, that pointer is invalid, so reading the key name triggers a segmentation fault. This can be triggered with the following code: my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:ExampleP:", "", "", { RaiseError => 0, PrintError => 0 } ); $dbh->{FetchHashKeyName} = 42; my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select mode, size, name from ."); $sth->execute; $sth->fetchrow_hashref;

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on DBI, upgrade to a fixed version (1.654) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/security/advisories/GHSA-f4qx-mr9m-q2hq
- https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/70962570212dc60a5428098cf2a0462ad5945851.patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/HMBRAND/DBI-1.654/changes

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