Bug 2566606 (CVE-2026-120639) - CVE-2026-120639 perl-cgi: perl-cgi: HTTP header injection via improper newline validation
Summary: CVE-2026-120639 perl-cgi: perl-cgi: HTTP header injection via improper newlin...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-120639
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-03 23:52 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-04 00:08 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-03 23:52:12 UTC
CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow HTTP header injection via entity decoding after the newline check in header and unchecked values in multipart_start and do_push.

With autoEscape off, header decodes HTML entities in extra header values after its newline check, so an encoded CR or LF reaches the response. multipart_start does not check header values for newlines, and do_push 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.


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