UBUNTU-CVE-2026-120638: Medium severity ubuntu/libcgi-pm-perl vulnerability

Published Nov 4, 2026
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Updated

CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow open redirects via HTML entity decoding of the URL after application validation in redirect. redirect decodes HTML entities in its URL before writing the Location header, so a URL the application has already validated can change meaning. For example, //evil.example/ becomes //evil.example/ and sends the user to another host.

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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