Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-49942

High

Published: 04 June 2026

Published
04 June 2026
Modified
08 June 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0049 38.2th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-49942 is a high-severity Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input (CWE-1289) vulnerability in Rrwo Net\. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 38.2th 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 network masks. The mask portion of a network mask could contain Unicode digits such as the Arabic-Indic One (U+0661), or non-digits, which were ignored. This could allow network masks to accept…

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larger networks. Leading zeros were also accepted, but treated as decimal instead of octal. This could lead to confusion about what networks are acceptable.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

rrwo
net\
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Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References