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TI-2026-42809 Aliases CVE-2026-60075GHSA-6w78-p685-p2f6

Regular expression denial of service in Date-Manip

Priority LOW 39CWE-1333Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 3 fixed, 2 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-1333.

Summary

Date::Manip versions through 7.00 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic backtracking in the unanchored time substitution in _parse_time. _parse_time removes a time from anywhere in the string with the unanchored substitution `s/$timerx/ /`, where $timerx is an auto-generated alternation of time patterns reached through a leading `(?:$atrx|^|\s+)`. The engine therefore retries the match at every position of an interior whitespace run: at each start position the leading `\s+` consumes the rest of the run greedily, the time alternation fails because the run holds no digits, and the engine backtracks a space at a time across the run before advancing the start position, which is quadratic in the length of the run. No time need be present in the string for this to happen, only a long run of whitespace, and the parse time rises about fourfold for each doubling of the run: a few kilobytes of whitespace costs seconds of CPU per parse and tens of kilobytes costs minutes. Any caller that passes an untrusted string of unbounded length to ParseDate(), Date::Manip::Date->parse() or ->parse_time() can be made to spend unbounded CPU in a single parse, a denial of service.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00373 31st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial Red Hat: 3 advisoriesRed Hat: 3 fixed, 2 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—Date-Manipup to 7.00—No fix listedCNA
  • Date-Manip Vendor— Affected up to 7.00 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

Red Hat 3 advisories

  • RHSA-2026:57562 Released 2026-08-20 · Red Hat rating Important
    perl-Date-Manip security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) perl-Date-Manip-6.60-3.el8_10.1
  • RHSA-2026:56970 Released 2026-08-19 · Red Hat rating Important
    perl-Date-Manip security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) perl-Date-Manip-6.85-3.el9_8.1
  • RHSA-2026:56971 Released 2026-08-19 · Red Hat rating Important
    perl-Date-Manip security update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) perl-Date-Manip-6.94-5.el10_2.1

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)Fixed RHSA-2026:56971
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)Fixed RHSA-2026:56970
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)Fixed RHSA-2026:57562

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-60075
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6w78-p685-p2f6
  3. 2026-10-14 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW

References

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