CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow HTTP header injection via entity decoding after the newline check in header and unchecked values in…
CVE-2026-120639
CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow HTTP header injection via entity decoding after the newline check in header and unchecked values in multipartstart and dopush. With autoEscape off, header decodes HTML entities in extra header values after its newline check, so an encoded CR or LF reaches the response. multipartstart does not check header values for newlines, and dopush does not check the type it prints in each part. An application that passes request data into these header values can be made to add headers or split the response.
Assessment
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- Severity
- Unscored
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 3 November 2026
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
- Assigner
- CPANSec
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