CVE-2026-120634 json
CGI::Carp versions before 5.00 for Perl leak warnings across requests in persistent environments via the warningsToBrowser buffer
published 2026-11-03 5 d ago modified 2026-11-04 4 d ago also EUVD-2026-116601
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
CGI::Carp versions before 5.00 for Perl leak warnings across requests in persistent environments via the warningsToBrowser buffer.
Warnings are held in a package-level buffer until warningsToBrowser writes them into the page as HTML comments, and the buffer is never cleared between requests. Under mod_perl, FastCGI or PSGI, warnings from one request are written into a later one.
Warnings that contain one user's request data can appear in the HTML sent to another user.
Patch / fix
- perl-CGI openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.20.0-1.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12465-1
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-120634 updated cvss 5.3
perl-cgi: perl-cgi: Information disclosure via uncleared warning buffer in persistent environments
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl-CGI 4.61-5.el10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perl-CGI 4.61-5.el10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 perl-CGI 4.61-5.el10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 perl-CGI 4.61-5.el10affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-488 Exposure of Data Element to Wrong Session
References
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-120634
- NVD CVE-2026-120634
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