Medium (6.5). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Net::CIDR::Lite versions before 0.24 for Perl does not properly consider extraneous zero characters in CIDR mask values, which may allow IP ACL bypass.
Mask forms like "/00" and "/01" pass validation and parse to the same prefix as their unpadded value.
See also CVE-2026-45190.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
6.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 22% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)