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CVE-2025-40907

FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library

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  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library. The included FastCGI library is affected by CVE-2025-23016, causing an integer overflow (and resultant heap-based buffer overflow) via crafted nameLen or valueLen values in data to the IPC socket. This occurs in ReadParams in fcgiapp.c.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • FCGI

    From 0.44 · through 0.82

References 6

openwall.com

GitHub · FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2

synacktiv.com

GitHub · perl-catalyst/FCGI

patch-diff.githubusercontent.com