FKIE_CVE-2026-117500

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-10-28 18:17 - Updated: 2026-10-29 15:11
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Summary
HTTP::Body versions before 1.24_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via regex backtracking on the filename of a multipart upload. For 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. A 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.
References
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/3abc958d78bd84bf4abb87bad79b9432eab7e694.patch
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/9ab46daaede02fb13ea55a7e3ede34c8b918d8ca.patch
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://metacpan.org/release/GETTY/HTTP-Body-1.24_01/changes
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  "affected": [
    {
      "affectedData": [
        {
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          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "modules": [
            "HTTP::Body"
          ],
          "packageName": "HTTP-Body",
          "packageURL": "pkg:cpan/HTTP-Body",
          "programFiles": [
            "lib/HTTP/Body/MultiPart.pm"
          ],
          "programRoutines": [
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              "name": "HTTP::Body::MultiPart::handler"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body",
          "versions": [
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              "status": "affected",
              "version": "0",
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            }
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    }
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  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
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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."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2026-117500",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-29T15:11:53.000",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2026-10-28T18:17:14.747",
  "references": [
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis",
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          "value": "CWE-1333"
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      "type": "Secondary"
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  ]
}



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