Critical severity · published May 30, 2025
CVE-2020-36846
IO::Compress::Brotli versions prior to 0.007 for Perl have an integer overflow in the bundled Brotli C library
9.8
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A buffer overflow, as described in CVE-2020-8927, exists in the embedded Brotli library. Versions of IO::Compress::Brotli prior to 0.007 included a version of the brotli library prior to version 1.0.8, where an attacker controlling the input length of a "one-shot" decompression request to a script can trigger a crash, which happens when copying over chunks of data larger than 2 GiB. It is recommended to update your IO::Compress::Brotli module to 0.007 or later. If one cannot update, we recommend to use the "streaming" API as opposed to the "one-shot" API, and impose chunk size limits.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 51% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IO
IO::Compress::Brotli · TIMLEGGE
before 0.007 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36846
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36846
github.com
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5v8v-66v8-mwm7
github.com
https://github.com/google/brotli/commit/223d80cfbec8fd346e32906c732c8ede21f0cea6
github.com
https://github.com/google/brotli/pull/826
github.com
https://github.com/timlegge/perl-IO-Compress-Brotli/blob/8b44c83b23bb4658179e1494af4b725a1bc476bc/Changes#L52
nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8927
