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CVE-2026-120642

Severity not reported
Data quality: partial. Some fields were not provided by the source.

CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl return request-derived values untainted under taint mode.

CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl return request-derived values untainted under taint mode. The upload filename, uploadInfo values, some path_info and script_name values, Accept results, and the name lists from url_param and cookie are returned without the taint flag, as is a cookie named expires from 4.67 on. These values come from regex captures or hash keys, which Perl does not taint, so they pass -T checks unvalidated.

CVSS
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Not reported by the source
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-11-04 00:17
Modified: 2026-11-04 18:42
NVD status: Deferred
Last synced 7 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-04 19:05 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1173

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-04 19:05 UTC · record ↗

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