CVE-2026-118988

HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-10-30. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory

Also known asEUVD-2026-113903 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-f6fq-c3r4-3jxq (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.5%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

Upgrade to CallBackery 0.60.1 or later (from the CVE record's solution, CPAN Security Group) — apply it.

CallBackery versions before 0.60.1 for Perl let unauthenticated clients read the POD of any file via path traversal in the /doc route.

Every CallBackery application mounts its documentation plugin at /doc, ahead of any session check. The route passes the requested name to Pod::Simple::Search->find without validation. find splits the name on "::" and joins the parts into a file path, so a name such as "..::..::..::etc::motd" escapes @INC.

Any file the server process can read is reachable. Only POD is rendered, but a file with a POD directive and no "=cut" is POD to the end of the file.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
49
EG Risk 49/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity75% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.5% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: Upgrade to CallBackery 0.60.1 or later (from the CVE record's solution, CPAN Security Group). Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
44th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-10). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

Upgrade to CallBackery 0.60.1 or later (from the CVE record's solution, CPAN Security Group). Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 30, 2026

Last Modified

November 6, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Nov 6, 2026
Fix named in the CVE record's solution (CPAN Security Group).
Web page

oss-security - CVE-2026-118988: CallBackery versions before 0.60.1 for Perl let unauthenticated clients read the POD of any file via path traversal in the /doc route

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/30/11

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-118988(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 24× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-11-13 16:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  2. 2026-11-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  3. 2026-11-11 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  4. 2026-11-11 03:45 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-11-11 03:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6fq-c3r4-3jxq · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  6. 2026-11-10 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  7. 2026-11-09 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  8. 2026-11-08 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  9. 2026-11-07 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  10. 2026-11-06 17:28 UTCEchelonGraph re-scoredFirst assessed: 7.5 HIGH
  11. 2026-11-06 17:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6fq-c3r4-3jxq
  12. 2026-11-06 17:27 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.5 · severity → HIGH
  13. 2026-11-06 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  14. 2026-11-05 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  15. 2026-11-04 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  16. 2026-11-03 16:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  17. 2026-11-02 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  18. 2026-11-01 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  19. 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 15th percentile
  20. 2026-10-30 17:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6fq-c3r4-3jxq
  21. 2026-10-30 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6fq-c3r4-3jxq
  22. 2026-10-30 16:26 UTCNVD update
  23. 2026-10-30 15:19 UTCMITRE cvelistV5
  24. 2026-10-30 13:27 UTCNVD update
  25. 2026-10-30 13:02 UTCENISA EUVD ID recordedEUVD-2026-113903 · Source: ENISA EUVD
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  1. 2026-10-30 12:41 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-10-30 12:41 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-118988?
CVE-2026-118988 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 30, 2026. CallBackery versions before 0.60.1 for Perl let unauthenticated clients read the POD of any file via path traversal in the /doc route. Every CallBackery application mounts its documentation plugin at /doc, ahead of any session check. The route passes the requested name to Pod::Simple::Search->find…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-118988 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-118988 was published on October 30, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 6, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-118988 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-118988 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (44th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-118988?
CVE-2026-118988 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-118988?
The CVE record's solution for CVE-2026-118988, written by its CNA CPAN Security Group, names the fix: "Upgrade to CallBackery 0.60.1 or later." The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-118988 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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