CVE-2026-14895 (GCVE-0-2026-14895)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-07 22:12 – Updated: 2026-07-08 14:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
String::Util versions before 1.36 for Perl are susceptible to a regular expression denial of service
Summary
String::Util versions before 1.36 for Perl are susceptible to a regular expression denial of service.
The trim and rtrim functions stripped trailing whitespace with s/\s*$//u. Because \s* matches greedily and the $ anchor fails whenever a non-whitespace character follows the whitespace, the regex engine retries the match at each offset of a long whitespace run, producing quadratic backtracking. The fix replaces \s*$ with \s+$.
Any caller that passes untrusted input to trim or rtrim can trigger CPU exhaustion with a string containing a long run of whitespace.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKERSCOT | String::Util |
Affected:
0 , < 1.36
(custom)
|
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