Microsoft Security Response Center guidance
Vendor revision: Nov 7, 2026Release Notes
Vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-120636. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
Release Notes
CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow open redirects and script injection via URLs built from REQUEST_URI in url and start_form.
url(-absolute=>1), url(-relative=>1) and the default start_form action are built from the client-supplied REQUEST_URI without validation. The result can be protocol-relative (//evil.example), absolute-form (http://evil.example/) or contain backslashes, and url(-relative=>1) can return a javascript: URL.
Links and form posts built from these URLs can go to another host.
Source: NVD