CPANSA-CallBackery-2026-118993: CallBackery vulnerability
| Publisher | giterlizzi | Document category | csaf_security_advisory |
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| Initial release date | 2026-10-30T00:00:00 | Engine | CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.26 |
| Current release date | 2026-10-30T00:00:00 | Build Date | |
| Current version | 1 | Status | final |
| CVSS v3.1 Base Score | Severity | ||
| Original language | Language | en | |
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Vulnerability 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.
Vulnerabilities
CVE-2026-118993
Vulnerability DescriptionCallBackery 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.
| Weakness | CWE-1333 : Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity |
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Product status
Known affected
| Product | Score | ||||
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| CallBackery less than 0.62.0 |
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Fixed
- CallBackery greater than or equal 0.62.0
giterlizzi
Namespace: https://github.com/giterlizzi/
gdt@cpan.org
References
- CPANSA-CallBackery-2026-118993 JSON self
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-callbackery-2026-118993.json - https://metacpan.org/release/OETIKER/CallBackery-0.62.0/changes external
https://metacpan.org/release/OETIKER/CallBackery-0.62.0/changes - CVE-2026-118993 (NVD) external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-118993
Revision history
| Version | Date of the revision | Summary of the revision |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 2026 | First release |
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