CVE-2026-120632
Received
Received - Intake
CGI for Perl CPU Exhaustion via Regex Backtracking
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-120632, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-11-04
Last updated on: 2026-11-04
Assigner: CPANSec
Description
Description
CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via a backtracking regex on the XForms multipart/related Content-Type.
When a POST Content-Type contains multipart/related, the boundary and start parameters are extracted with an unanchored pattern that puts .+ on either side of the boundary capture, which backtracks in cubic time on a header that does not match. No request body is needed.
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Affected Vendors & Products
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-1333 | The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential. |
