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    "dataVersion": "5.2",
    "cveMetadata": {
        "cveId": "CVE-2026-117500",
        "assignerOrgId": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "CPANSec",
        "dateReserved": "2026-10-27T08:44:49.796Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-10-28T17:17:11.051Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-28T17:17:11.051Z"
    },
    "containers": {
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            "affected": [
                {
                    "collectionURL": "https://cpan.org/modules",
                    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
                    "modules": [
                        "HTTP::Body"
                    ],
                    "packageName": "HTTP-Body",
                    "packageURL": "pkg:cpan/HTTP-Body",
                    "programFiles": [
                        "lib/HTTP/Body/MultiPart.pm"
                    ],
                    "programRoutines": [
                        {
                            "name": "HTTP::Body::MultiPart::handler"
                        }
                    ],
                    "repo": "https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "lessThan": "1.24_01",
                            "status": "affected",
                            "version": "0",
                            "versionType": "custom"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "descriptions": [
                {
                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "HTTP::Body versions before 1.24_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via regex backtracking on the filename of a multipart upload.\n\nFor every file part, the multipart parser finds the suffix of the uploaded filename by matching the default $basename_regexp, qr/[^.]+(\\.[^\\\\\\/]+)$/, against the whole basename. A basename made of many dots and ending in a backslash makes the regex backtrack in time quadratic in its length.\n\nA remote attacker can exhaust CPU with one request, as a basename of about 32 KB takes several seconds to match and every file part is matched separately."
                }
            ],
            "problemTypes": [
                {
                    "descriptions": [
                        {
                            "cweId": "CWE-1333",
                            "description": "CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity",
                            "lang": "en",
                            "type": "CWE"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "providerMetadata": {
                "orgId": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e",
                "shortName": "CPANSec",
                "dateUpdated": "2026-10-28T17:17:11.051Z"
            },
            "references": [
                {
                    "tags": [
                        "patch"
                    ],
                    "url": "https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/9ab46daaede02fb13ea55a7e3ede34c8b918d8ca.patch"
                },
                {
                    "tags": [
                        "patch"
                    ],
                    "url": "https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/3abc958d78bd84bf4abb87bad79b9432eab7e694.patch"
                },
                {
                    "tags": [
                        "release-notes"
                    ],
                    "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/GETTY/HTTP-Body-1.24_01/changes"
                }
            ],
            "solutions": [
                {
                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "Upgrade to HTTP-Body 1.24_01 or later."
                }
            ],
            "source": {
                "discovery": "UNKNOWN"
            },
            "title": "HTTP::Body versions before 1.24_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via regex backtracking on the filename of a multipart upload",
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            }
        }
    }
}