Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-65059

Furl versions through 3.15 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded decompression of HTTP responses

CVSS 3.1
7.5High

Official description

Furl versions through 3.15 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded decompression of HTTP responses. Furl inflates a response body sent with a gzip, x-gzip or deflate Content-Encoding and appends the output to the response string with no size limit. It does this whether or not the request asked for compression, and no option caps the decompressed size. Responses read with write_file or write_code are streamed rather than held in memory. A malicious server, or an attacker on a plain HTTP connection, can send a small compressed response that expands to exhaust the client's memory and end the process.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.5High 3.1 CISA ADP / Vulnrichment (CISA-ADP) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
No product information recorded.

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-11-02
Last updated
2026-11-06
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
CPANSec

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.5%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
43%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-409
    Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)