Bug 2556477 - CVE-2026-110688 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS: Quadratic CPU usage in incr_parse [epel-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-110688 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS: Quadratic CPU usage in incr_parse [epel-...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS
Version: epel10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul Howarth
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["1b3cb6d7-ab8d-4fb6-a120-c...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-110688
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Reported: 2026-10-20 20:51 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2026-10-24 16:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_4 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_2 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_3 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el9 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el8
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2026-10-24 00:29:56 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2026-10-20 20:51:13 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.

Cpanel::JSON::XS versions from 4.51 before 4.80 for Perl allow quadratic CPU use by revalidating the remaining buffer per value in incr_parse.

At the first non-ASCII byte in a string, the decoder validates UTF-8 from there to the end of its input. incr_parse decodes each buffered value with a fresh decoder, so every value revalidates the rest of the buffer, and doubling the input quadruples the work.

A peer that sends about a megabyte of ordinary non-ASCII JSON in one read ties up the process for seconds of CPU time.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-10-21 07:41:40 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-672076fdc0 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_4) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.4.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-672076fdc0

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-10-21 08:03:41 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-3b3b4740ca (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_3) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.3.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-3b3b4740ca

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-10-21 08:32:20 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9b03a92984 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_2) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.2.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9b03a92984

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-10-21 08:46:29 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-95af75ef34 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el9) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-95af75ef34

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-10-21 08:50:34 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-b4b3dd8025 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el8) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-b4b3dd8025

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 00:29:56 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-672076fdc0 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_4) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.4 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 15:43:14 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-672076fdc0 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_4) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.4 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 15:55:48 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9b03a92984 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_2) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.2 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 15:59:48 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-3b3b4740ca (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el10_3) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.3 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 16:19:49 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-95af75ef34 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el9) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2026-10-24 16:28:59 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-b4b3dd8025 (perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.80-1.el8) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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