CVE-2026-110688

Name	CVE-2026-110688
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libcpanel-json-xs-perl (PTS)	bookworm, bookworm (security)	4.35-1+deb12u1	vulnerable
	trixie (security), trixie	4.39-2~deb13u1	vulnerable
	forky	4.51-1	vulnerable
	sid	4.80-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
libcpanel-json-xs-perl	source	(unstable)	4.80-1

Notes

https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/44479935/
Fixed by; https://github.com/rurban/Cpanel-JSON-XS/commit/384309f6a297384e69c851b5d64e1c421d9b2dcc (4.80)