GHSA-f4c2-m2fq-wp7wHighCVSS 7.5
HTTP::Body versions before 1.24_02 for Perl parse the trailer in quadratic time. Everything...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
HTTP::Body versions before 1.24_02 for Perl parse the trailer in quadratic time.
Everything after the last chunk in the same call to add() is parsed with HTTP::Headers, which takes time quadratic in the number of fields of one name. For example, it takes several seconds to parse 16 KiB of "a:" lines.
A remote attackercan exhause the CPU with a single request.
HTTP::Body version 1.25 limits the size and number of lines in the trailer.
🔗 References (5)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-121006
- https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/983dd4ca3b863ab513240b02c91c3114fb299389.patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/GETTY/HTTP-Body-1.24_02/changes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/11/06/8
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f4c2-m2fq-wp7w