CVE•Published 2026-04-27•Modified 2026-05-07•0 articles on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-7040Rrwo · Text\
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.5
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS percentile
15
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 85% of all CVEs
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.
Timeline
Published 2026-04-27
Modified 2026-05-07
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2026-7040Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product + version
product:"Rrwo Text\" version:"\"Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Text\"HTTP body or banner mentions "Text\" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-7040Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-7040Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-7040Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-7040GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-7040" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (1)
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