CVE-2026-120638
Received
Received - Intake
Open Redirect in Perl CGI Versions Before 5.00
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-120638, 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 open redirects via HTML entity decoding of the URL after application validation in redirect.
redirect decodes HTML entities in its URL before writing the Location header, so a URL the application has already validated can change meaning. For example, //evil.example/ becomes //evil.example/ and sends the user to another host.
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Affected Vendors & Products
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Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-601 | The web application accepts a user-controlled input that specifies a link to an external site, and uses that link in a redirect. |
| CWE-180 | The product validates input before it is canonicalized, which prevents the product from detecting data that becomes invalid after the canonicalization step. |
