Date::Manip up to 6.99 Time Parsing _parse_time timerx resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Date::Manip up to 6.99. Affected by this issue is the function _parse_time of the component Time Parsing. Executing a manipulation of the argument timerx can lead to resource consumption. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-60075. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Date::Manip up to 6.99. This vulnerability affects the function _parse_time of the component Time Parsing. The manipulation of the argument timerx with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

Date::Manip versions through 6.99 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.

The advisory is available at security.metacpan.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-60075 since 07/08/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying the patch CVE-2026-60075-r1.patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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Name

• Date::Manip

Version

• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.4
• 6.5
• 6.6
• 6.7
• 6.8
• 6.9
• 6.10
• 6.11
• 6.12
• 6.13
• 6.14
• 6.15
• 6.16
• 6.17
• 6.18
• 6.19
• 6.20
• 6.21
• 6.22
• 6.23
• 6.24
• 6.25
• 6.26
• 6.27
• 6.28
• 6.29
• 6.30
• 6.31
• 6.32
• 6.33
• 6.34
• 6.35
• 6.36
• 6.37
• 6.38
• 6.39
• 6.40
• 6.41
• 6.42
• 6.43
• 6.44
• 6.45
• 6.46
• 6.47
• 6.48
• 6.49
• 6.50
• 6.51
• 6.52
• 6.53
• 6.54
• 6.55
• 6.56
• 6.57
• 6.58
• 6.59
• 6.60
• 6.61
• 6.62
• 6.63
• 6.64
• 6.65
• 6.66
• 6.67
• 6.68
• 6.69
• 6.70
• 6.71
• 6.72
• 6.73
• 6.74
• 6.75
• 6.76
• 6.77
• 6.78
• 6.79
• 6.80
• 6.81
• 6.82
• 6.83
• 6.84
• 6.85
• 6.86
• 6.87
• 6.88
• 6.89
• 6.90
• 6.91
• 6.92
• 6.93
• 6.94
• 6.95
• 6.96
• 6.97
• 6.98
• 6.99

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