CVE-2026-120646

Name	CVE-2026-120646
Description	CGI versions from 4.71 before 5.00 for Perl allow denial of service via a plain string dereferenced as a symbolic reference in uploadInfo. uploadInfo dereferences its argument and calls its filename method without checking that it is an upload filehandle. A plain string naming a defined global variable, such as the parameter value from ?upload=0, is treated as a symbolic reference, and the method call on it dies.
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
libcgi-pm-perl (PTS)	bookworm	4.55-1	vulnerable
	trixie	4.68-1	vulnerable
	forky	4.72-1	vulnerable
	sid	5.02-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
libcgi-pm-perl	source	(unstable)	5.02-1

Notes

https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/44874987/
https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/a14a7decfdc18f2daf436d30df9b543e3f0f8da3 (v5.01)