CVE-2026-117500
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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
Details: 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: https://cpan.org/modules, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/117xxx/CVE-2026-117500.json, https://metacpan.org/release/GETTY/HTTP-Body-1.24_01/changes, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-117500, https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/3abc958d78bd84bf4abb87bad79b9432eab7e694.patch, https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/9ab46daaede02fb13ea55a7e3ede34c8b918d8ca.patch, https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body
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