CVE-2026-120646
HIGH
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.04
BB Relevance:
75/100
Published: 2026-11-04
Modified: 2026-11-09
First seen: 2026-11-04
Status: active
Attack Surface
Network
Low Complexity
No Auth
No Interaction
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Network
AC:
Low
PR:
None
UI:
None
S:
Unchanged
C:
None
I:
None
A:
High
Description
CGI versions from 4.71 before 5.00 for Perl allow denial of service via a plain string dereferenced as a symbolic reference in uploadInfo. uploadInfo dereferences its argument and calls its filename method without checking that it is an upload filehandle. A plain string naming a defined global variable, such as the parameter value from ?upload=0, is treated as a symbolic reference, and the method call on it dies.
Weakness Classification (1)
References & Advisories (3)
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