A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in STIGTSP Net::CIDR::Lite up to 0.22 on Perl. The affected element is the function _pack_ipv6. Executing a manipulation can lead to improper validation of syntactic correctness of input.

This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-40198. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

Upgrading the affected component is recommended.