# CVE-2026-116133: HTTP::Body versions before 1.23\_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic rescanning of a multipart body with a missing or malformed boundary

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-112271, GHSA-XCWX-VGGW-CVW9
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.23_01
- Published: 2026-10-28 · Updated: 2026-10-28

## Summary

HTTP::Body, a Perl module for parsing HTTP request bodies, can be made to consume excessive CPU time when it receives multipart form data with a missing or malformed boundary. A remote attacker could send a few such requests to tie up server worker processes.

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## Affected

- HTTP-Body: fixed in 1.23\_01

## Description

HTTP::Body versions before 1.23_01 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic rescanning of a multipart body with a missing or malformed boundary. Before the first part, and between parts, the multipart parser searches the whole buffered body for the next boundary. On a miss it keeps everything and searches again from the start when the next chunk arrives. A body with no boundary, or with a delimiter followed by neither CRLF nor "--", is therefore rescanned on every chunk, taking time quadratic in its size. A remote attacker can exhaust worker CPU with a few such requests.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on HTTP-Body, upgrade to a fixed version (1.23_01) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Body/commit/bf77eb959bbe1641b77f69eefe98d58ce4c4ec79.patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/GETTY/HTTP-Body-1.24/changes

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