CVE-2026-120636

Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.

Description

CGI 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.

Severity

Not scored

CVSS score

Not available

Vulnerability status

Received

Source identifier

9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

Published

2026-11-04 00:17:24.867000

Last modified

2026-11-04 00:17:24.867000

View original CVE JSON

{
  "id": "CVE-2026-120636",
  "sourceIdentifier": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e",
  "published": "2026-11-04T00:17:24.867",
  "lastModified": "2026-11-04T00:17:24.867",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow open redirects and script injection via URLs built from REQUEST_URI in url and start_form.\n\nurl(-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."
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "source": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e",
      "affectedData": [
        {
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "collectionURL": "https://cpan.org/modules",
          "packageName": "CGI",
          "modules": [
            "CGI"
          ],
          "programFiles": [
            "lib/CGI.pm"
          ],
          "programRoutines": [
            {
              "name": "CGI::url"
            },
            {
              "name": "CGI::start_form"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm",
          "packageURL": "pkg:cpan/CGI",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "0",
              "lessThan": "5.00",
              "versionType": "custom",
              "status": "affected"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "metrics": {},
  "weaknesses": [
    {
      "source": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e",
      "type": "Secondary",
      "description": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "CWE-79"
        },
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "CWE-601"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/commit/9405ef3909ee94991a3474167aa53b9051bd8765.patch",
      "source": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/LEEJO/CGI-4.72/source/lib/CGI.pm",
      "source": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/LEEJO/CGI-5.00/changes",
      "source": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e"
    }
  ]
}