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CVE-2026-120632
high
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.
References
https://metacpan.org/release/LEEJO/CGI-5.00/changes
https://metacpan.org/release/LEEJO/CGI-4.72/source/lib/CGI.pm
https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/1e529c7ac8d410a51b4b04ab9d6cc00d51ef33c0.patch