CVE-2026-120635 PUBLISHED

CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow form fields to be smuggled past proxies and WAFs via multipart parsing that differs from the RFCs

Assigner: CPANSec
Reserved: 02.11.2026 Published: 03.11.2026 Updated: 03.11.2026

CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow form fields to be smuggled past proxies and WAFs via multipart parsing that differs from the RFCs.

The multipart/form-data parser matches the boundary anywhere rather than at the start of a line, uses the boundary without its leading -- for some client-supplied User-Agent values, finds the Content-Disposition name and filename inside the quoted values of other parameters, and corrupts parts when the boundary nears the 4096-byte read size.

Product Status

Package Collection https://cpan.org/modules
Package Name CGI
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 5.00 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to CGI 5.00 or later.

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-436 Interpretation Conflict CWE