CVE-2026-116285: vulnerability in HTTP-Body
HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic regex backtracking when parsing chunked request bodies
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.3%
HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic regex backtracking when parsing chunked request bodies.
In chunked mode, used when no content length is given, add() matches each chunk-size line with `/^([\da-fA-F]+).*\x0D\x0A/`. On a line of hex digits whose first LF has no CR before it, the digits and `.*` backtrack against each other, so a single add() takes time quadratic in the line's length. Nothing limits how long the line can be.
A remote attacker can exhaust CPU in applications that pass chunked request bodies to HTTP::Body.
Affected products
HTTP-BodyRelated CVEs — HTTP-Body
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-116135—HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl drop mixed-case percent escapes from urlencoded form fields instead of decoding themEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-116132—HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl leave the temporary file of an incomplete multipart upload on diskEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-116134—HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via an unbounded multipart part header blockEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-116133—HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic rescanning of a multipart body with a missing or malformed boundaryEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-116131—HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow memory and temporary file exhaustion via an unlimited number of form fields and multipart partsEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-116531—HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl lose track of chunk boundaries in chunked request bodies when a read ends inside a chunkEPSS 0.3%