CVE-2026-118993
CallBackery versions before 0.62.0 for Perl allow denial of service via the request path…
- Risk score
- 51/100
- CVSS
- 7.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 30 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- CallBackery versions before 0.62.0 for Perl allow denial of service via the request path interpolated as a regular expression under CGI, FastCGI and PSGI. The before_dispatch hook installed by startup() removes PATH_INFO from the end of the request URI with a substitution that interpolates PATH_INFO unquoted. Under CG…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Upgrade the product to 0.62.0 or later.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.5 high
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
Original description
CallBackery versions before 0.62.0 for Perl allow denial of service via the request path interpolated as a regular expression under CGI, FastCGI and PSGI. The before_dispatch hook installed by startup() removes PATH_INFO from the end of the request URI with a substitution that interpolates PATH_INFO unquoted. Under CGI, FastCGI and PSGI both values come from the request, so the client chooses both the pattern and the string it is matched against. A short unauthenticated request with a backreference in the path backtracks exponentially and can keep a worker process busy for minutes.
Last activity 30 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.