CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-116133
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-10-28
- Last modified
- 2026-10-29
- Assigner
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- Weaknesses
- CWE-407
Description
HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic rescanning of a multipart body with a missing or malformed boundary.
Before the first part, and between parts, the multipart parser searches the whole buffered body for the next boundary. On a miss it keeps everything and searches again from the start when the next chunk arrives. A body with no boundary, or with a delimiter followed by neither CRLF nor "--", is therefore rescanned on every chunk, taking time quadratic in its size.
A remote attacker can exhaust worker CPU with a few such requests.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness