high · CVSS v3 7.5
CVE-2026-120632
CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via a backtracking regex on the XForms multipart/related Content-…
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.
Scores
- Severity
- high
- CVSS v2
- 5
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- CVSS v4
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- EPSS
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