UBUNTU-CVE-2026-120632: Medium severity ubuntu/libcgi-pm-perl vulnerability

Published Nov 4, 2026
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Updated

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.

Affected Software

7 affected components
ubuntu/libcgi-pm-perl*
ubuntu/libcgi-pm-perl*
ubuntu/libcgi-pm-perl*
ubuntu/libcgi-pm-perl*
ubuntu/libcgi-pm-perl*
ubuntu/libcgi-pm-perl*
ubuntu/libcgi-pm-perl*

Event History

Nov 4, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·12:17 AM
Data Sourced
via OSV·12:17 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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