Bug 2567300

Summary: CVE-2026-120636 perl-CGI: perl-cgi: script injection via unvalidated request URI [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component: perl-CGIAssignee: Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik>
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Description Marian Rehak 2026-11-05 13:42:45 UTC 
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow open redirects and script injection via URLs built from REQUEST_URI in url and start_form.

url(-absolute=>1), url(-relative=>1) and the default start_form action are built from the client-supplied REQUEST_URI without validation. The result can be protocol-relative (//evil.example), absolute-form (http://evil.example/) or contain backslashes, and url(-relative=>1) can return a javascript: URL. Links and form posts built from these URLs can go to another host.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-11-06 09:52:51 UTC 
FEDORA-2026-a04615c725 (perl-CGI-5.02-1.fc45) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 45.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-a04615c725
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-11-06 09:53:43 UTC 
FEDORA-2026-516e427bac (perl-CGI-5.02-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-516e427bac