CVE-2026-116133 (GCVE-0-2026-116133)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-28 17:15
Modified
2026-10-28 17:15
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VLAI Severity ?
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CWE
- CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Summary
HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic rescanning of a multipart body with a missing or malformed boundary.
Before the first part, and between parts, the multipart parser searches the whole buffered body for the next boundary. On a miss it keeps everything and searches again from the start when the next chunk arrives. A body with no boundary, or with a delimiter followed by neither CRLF nor "--", is therefore rescanned on every chunk, taking time quadratic in its size.
A remote attacker can exhaust worker CPU with a few such requests.
References
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