CVE-2026-118993 (GCVE-0-2026-118993)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-30 13:11
Modified
2026-10-30 13:11
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
CallBackery versions before 0.62.0 for Perl allow denial of service via the request path interpolated as a regular expression under CGI, FastCGI and PSGI.
The before_dispatch hook installed by startup() removes PATH_INFO from the end of the request URI with a substitution that interpolates PATH_INFO unquoted. Under CGI, FastCGI and PSGI both values come from the request, so the client chooses both the pattern and the string it is matched against.
A short unauthenticated request with a backreference in the path backtracks exponentially and can keep a worker process busy for minutes.
References
| URL | Tags | |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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