Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-49941

HighDDoS

Published: 04 June 2026

Published
04 June 2026
Modified
08 June 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0049 38.4th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-49941 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) vulnerability in Rrwo Net\. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 38.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Net::CIDR::Set versions through 0.20 for Perl did not validate IP addresses. The add method called the _encode method to parse addresses. If the addresses did not look like netmasks or network ranges, then they were assumed to single IP addresses…

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and passed back to itself as a 32-bit or 128-bit netmask. If the argument was not a well-formed IP address, then this would lead to indefinite recursion. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

rrwo
net\
\

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-674

Supports resumption at alternate site when uncontrolled recursion causes primary site failure or crash.

addresses: CWE-674

Prevents uncontrolled recursion that exhausts stack or CPU resources.

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