CVE-2026-120636

NameCVE-2026-120636
DescriptionCGI 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.
SourceCVE (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 PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libcgi-pm-perl (PTS)bookworm4.55-1vulnerable
trixie4.68-1vulnerable
forky4.72-1vulnerable
sid5.02-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libcgi-pm-perlsource(unstable)5.02-1

Notes

https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/44874807/
https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/9405ef3909ee94991a3474167aa53b9051bd8765 (v5.01)

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