Protocol::HTTP2 versions before 1.13 for Perl is vulnerable to a HTTP/2 Bomb.
Protocol::HTTP2's inbound HPACK path has no header-list size limit, so a small HTTP/2 request can expand into large server memory (the "HTTP/2 bomb").
The headersdecode method materialises a full key+value copy per indexed reference with no running size check, and the streamheaderblockadd method appends (since version 1.12) every CONTINUATION frame to the per-stream buffer unbounded.
MAXHEADERLIST_SIZE (default 65536) is advertised in SETTINGS but never consulted on decode. It is absent from the decoder and from the :limits export tag.
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/10xxx/CVE-2026-10725.json",
"cna_assigner": "CPANSec",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-409"
]
}{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:crux:protocol\\:\\:http2:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*",
"source": [
"CPE_RANGE",
"REFERENCES"
],
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.13"
}
]
}