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CVE-2026-120632 json

CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via a backtracking regex on the XForms multipart/related Content-Type

published 6d ago modified 7h ago also EUVD-2026-116599

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • cpan CGI 5.00
  • perl-CGI openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.20.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12465-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-120632 updated cvss 5.3

perl-CGI: perl-CGI: Denial of Service via crafted multipart/related Content-Type header

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl-CGI 4.61-5.el10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perl-CGI 4.61-5.el10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 perl-CGI 4.61-5.el10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 perl-CGI 4.61-5.el10
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
7h ago

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • cpan CGI

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

Sources

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