CVE-2026-120650: vulnerability in CGI
CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow memory, CPU and disk exhaustion via missing or unenforced request size, parameter and upload limits
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow memory, CPU and disk exhaustion via missing or unenforced request size, parameter and upload limits.
$CGI::POST_MAX defaults to no limit, and when set is not enforced for chunked multipart bodies or for the boundary line of a multipart body without a boundary= parameter. Bodies saved as PUTDATA, POSTDATA or PATCHDATA uploads are read into memory in one go, and nothing limits the number of parameters or uploads.
Affected products
CGIRelated CVEs — CGI
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-120645—CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow denial of service via submitted values used as a regex for optgroup selection in scrolling_listEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-120631—CGI::Cookie versions from 4.67 before 5.00 for Perl allow denial of service via the client cookie expires value used as a regex in parseEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-120639—CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow HTTP header injection via entity decoding after the newline check in header and unchecked values in multipart_start and do_pushEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-120636—CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow open redirects and script injection via URLs built from REQUEST_URI in url and start_formEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-120648—CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow HTML injection via text containing --> in commentEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-120643—CGI versions from 4.62 before 5.00 for Perl allow cross-site scripting via a raw apostrophe in URLs returned by url and self_urlEPSS 0.2%
References
https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/17b838dc14d2b82ae6c7e76f66ec2c3f3b08038b.patchhttps://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/277baeb74fde7bce975a7bd0a1f98dcf1b9b2050.patchhttps://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/8940a74e53a41563f72813b45f99cceaaa4c92e8.patchhttps://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/f3febefe63fe3881d8c3ae10fa83ca8ec950b959.patchhttps://metacpan.org/release/LEEJO/CGI-4.72/source/lib/CGI.pmhttps://metacpan.org/release/LEEJO/CGI-5.00/changes