{"id":"EM-20261104-1GDS","url":"https://cyber.eventmonitor.net/incident/EM-20261104-1GDS/cgi-vulnerability-cve-2026-120651/","type":"cve","title":"CGI Vulnerability (CVE-2026-120651)","subtitle":"CVE-2026-120651","subject":"CVE-2026-120651","status":"Developing","severity":"high","affected":[],"headline":null,"born":"2026-11-04T00:17:26.633Z","firstSignal":"2026-11-03T23:41:17.000Z","lastSignal":"2026-11-04T00:17:26.633Z","updated":"2026-11-09T19:33:27.959Z","revision":1,"life":[{"status":"Born","at":"2026-11-04T00:17:26.633Z","why":"second independent source: C6 NVD CVE API 2.0"},{"status":"Developing","at":"2026-11-04T00:17:26.633Z","why":"signals keep joining"}],"changeLog":[{"at":"2026-11-03T23:41:17.000Z","what":"First signal: C41 Red Hat Security Data"},{"at":"2026-11-04T00:17:26.633Z","what":"Born: second source, C6 NVD CVE API 2.0. Page EM-20261104-1GDS created."}],"stages":[{"name":"Disclosed","at":"2026-11-04T00:17:26.633Z","detail":"C6 NVD published"},{"name":"Scored","at":"2026-11-04T00:17:26.633Z","detail":"CVSS 7.5 · EPSS 0.2%"},{"name":"Exploited","at":null,"detail":"No exploitation reported"},{"name":"Advisories","at":null,"detail":"None yet"},{"name":"Vendor Response","at":"2026-11-03T23:41:17.000Z","detail":"C41 published"},{"name":"Resolved","at":null,"detail":"After 14 quiet days"}],"signals":[{"at":"2026-11-03T23:41:17.000Z","source":"C41","sourceName":"Red Hat Security Data","role":"Vendor","severity":3,"title":"Red Hat: CVE-2026-120651 (important)","text":"perl-cgi: perl-cgi: Denial of Service via truncated request body","url":"https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2026-120651.json"},{"at":"2026-11-04T00:17:26.633Z","source":"C6","sourceName":"NVD CVE API 2.0","role":"Database","severity":3,"title":"CVE-2026-120651 (CVSS 7.5)","text":"CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow an infinite loop on a short request body when $DISABLE_UPLOADS is set.\n\nWhen $CGI::PUTDATA_UPLOAD or an upload hook is set, read_postdata_putdata takes a request body that is not a form submission. With $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS set, it discards the body by reading until Content-Length bytes have arrived. Once a body shorter than its Content-Length runs out, every read returns 0, so the loop never ends.\n\nA client can keep a server process spinning with one such request.","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-120651"}],"crowd":[],"reference":{"nvd":{"published":"2026-11-04T00:17:26.633","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","desc":"CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow an infinite loop on a short request body when $DISABLE_UPLOADS is set.\n\nWhen $CGI::PUTDATA_UPLOAD or an upload hook is set, read_postdata_putdata takes a request body that is not a form submission. With $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS set, it discards the body by…","product":"","seen":1794252807959},"kev":null,"epss":{"epss":0.0018,"pct":0.0759,"at":1793803438877},"p0":false},"mergedInto":null,"publisher":"Event Monitor Cyber"}