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.

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
— — 4.71 < 5.00
— — 4.71 < 5.00

Bug Bounty Relevance

75 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

7.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.47%
Raw Score 0.004740
Percentile 41.5%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00474
2026-11-13
0.00474
2026-11-12
0.00474
2026-11-10
0.00474
2026-11-09
0.00183
2026-11-08
0.00183
2026-11-07
0.00183
2026-11-06
0.00183
2026-11-05
0.00183
2026-11-04
0.00183

Intelligence Sources

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