CVE-2026-113877 (GCVE-0-2026-113877)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-23 20:07
Modified
2026-10-23 23:06
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-624 - Executable Regular Expression Error
Summary
HTTP::Headers::ActionPack versions before 0.10 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via Accept-Language ranges matched as regular expressions.
_language_match interpolates each Accept-Language range into the pattern `/^$range\-/i` without escaping it, so regular expression syntax in the header reaches the regex engine. A 12-byte range such as `(a?|b?){26}z` backtracks for seconds, and each increment of the quantifier doubles the time. An invalid range such as `(` fails to compile.
A remote attacker can exhaust CPU, or make choose_language die, in any application that passes an untrusted Accept-Language header to it.
References
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