
🚨 CRITICAL - Multiple DoS & Request Smuggling/Parsing Flaws in Perl HTTP::Body A batch of vulnerabilities has been disclosed in Perl's widely used HTTP::Body module (underlying Catalyst, Plack, Dancer, and other web frameworks): • CVE-2026-116135: Drops mixed-case percent-encoded characters, causing parser discrepancies/desync with front-end proxies. • CVE-2026-116531: Chunk boundary tracking loss in chunked transfer decoding, enabling request smuggling/hanging. • CVE-2026-116285 & CVE-2026-117500: Catastrophic ReDoS backtracking in chunked line size parsing and multipart basename suffixes leading to CPU exhaustion. • CVE-2026-116134: Unthrottled buffer growth causing memory exhaustion DoS. 👉 Affected: HTTP::Body < 1.24 | Upgrade to v1.24 (or latest distro package fixes) immediately
