CVE-2026-120646
Severity not reportedCGI versions from 4.71 before 5.00 for Perl allow denial of service via a plain string dereferenced as a symbolic reference in uploadInfo.
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 products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
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
- https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/a14a7decfdc18f2daf436d30df9b543e3f0f8da3.patch 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- https://metacpan.org/release/LEEJO/CGI-4.72/source/lib/CGI.pm 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- https://metacpan.org/release/LEEJO/CGI-5.00/changes 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

