DEBIAN-CVE-2026-14741
- Source
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-14741
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-14741.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-14741
- Upstream
- Published
- 2026-07-17T16:17:13Z
- Modified
- 2026-09-14T17:00:16Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
HTTP::Date versions before 6.08 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via polynomial regex backtracking in parse_date. parse_date() matches the date string against a chain of alternative regexes, and str2time() delegates to it. Several of these patterns place unbounded quantifiers next to each other before a trailing
\s*$anchor. A valid date prefix followed by a long interior run of digits, letters, or whitespace and a single trailing byte that defeats the final match forces the engine to repartition the run, giving polynomial (about quadratic) backtracking. A header value of a few tens of kilobytes runs for tens of seconds of CPU. HTTP::Date parses timestamps such as HTTPDate,Expires, andLast-Modifiedheaders, which commonly originate from untrusted sources. Any caller that passes an untrusted date header to str2time() or parse_date() can be driven to consume unbounded CPU, a denial of service. - References
Affected packages
Debian:12 / libhttp-date-perl
Package
- Name
- libhttp-date-perl
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libhttp-date-perl?arch=source&distro=bookworm
Debian:13 / libhttp-date-perl
Package
- Name
- libhttp-date-perl
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libhttp-date-perl?arch=source&distro=trixie
Debian:14 / libhttp-date-perl
Package
- Name
- libhttp-date-perl
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libhttp-date-perl?arch=source&distro=forky