CVE-2026-60075

A flaw was found in Date::Manip for Perl. An attacker could exploit a vulnerability in the _parse_time function by providing a specially crafted input string containing long sequences of whitespace. This could lead to excessive CPU consumption due to inefficient processing, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the affected system.

The perl-Date-Manip module is vulnerable to a denial of service. Applications that process untrusted, unbounded input strings containing long sequences of whitespace can experience significant CPU exhaustion, leading to service unavailability. This is due to quadratic backtracking during date parsing.

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.