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.
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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Solution
Upgrade to CGI 5.00 or later.
Workaround
For deployments that cannot upgrade, reject Content-Type request headers longer than 1KB at the web server.
Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000
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| 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. | |
| Title | CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via a backtracking regex on the XForms multipart/related Content-Type | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1333 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CPANSec
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-03T23:40:01.071Z
Reserved: 2026-11-02T17:39:55.528Z
Link: CVE-2026-120632
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NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2026-11-04T00:17:24.320
Modified: 2026-11-04T00:17:24.320
Link: CVE-2026-120632
Redhat
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