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          "value": "HTTP::Body versions before 1.24_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via regex backtracking on the filename of a multipart upload.\n\nFor every file part, the multipart parser finds the suffix of the uploaded filename by matching the default $basename_regexp, qr/[^.]+(\\.[^\\\\\\/]+)$/, against the whole basename. A basename made of many dots and ending in a backslash makes the regex backtrack in time quadratic in its length.\n\nA remote attacker can exhaust CPU with one request, as a basename of about 32 KB takes several seconds to match and every file part is matched separately."
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              "cweId": "CWE-1333",
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            }
          ]
        }
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          "lang": "en",
          "value": "Upgrade to HTTP-Body 1.24_01 or later."
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        "discovery": "UNKNOWN"
      },
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    "cveId": "CVE-2026-117500",
    "datePublished": "2026-10-28T17:17:11.051Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-10-27T08:44:49.796Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-10-28T17:17:11.051Z",
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