CVE-2026-120632

Unknown

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.

SeverityUnknown

CVSS—

Exploit probability—

ProductCgi

PublishedNov 4, 2026

First seenNov 4, 2026

Weakness typeCWE-1333CWE-1333

How to fix

Update

CGI5.00 or later

Patches

github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/1e529c7ac8d410a51b4b04ab9d6cc00d51ef33c0.patch

Vendor advisories

metacpan.org/release/LEEJO/CGI-5.00/changes

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
CGI	v < 5.00	5.00

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