HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410000 for Perl allow attacker selected method dispatch and resource exhaustion because _apply_actions and add_error use error message text built from request data

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4993",
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    "title": "HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410000 for Perl allow attacker selected method dispatch and resource exhaustion because _apply_actions and add_error use error message text built from request data ",
    "summary": "HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410000 for Perl allow attacker selected method dispatch and resource exhaustion because _apply_actions and add_error use error message text built from request data as a Locale::Maketext bracket notation template. add_error hands its first argument to the language handle as the Locale::Maketext message key, and the default handle's lexicon sets `_AUTO`, so a string that is not a lexicon entry is compiled as a bracket notation template instead of being looked up. In a bracket group the first token names a method called on the language handle and the remaining tokens are its arguments. Three kinds of text the library did not author reach that position. _apply_actions installs a `$SIG{__WARN__}` handler that stores the warning text in `$error_message`, and a captured warning survives a successful action, so a field carrying a numeric transform turns `Argument \"[sprintf,%50000000d,0]\" isn't numeric` into the template; a warning quotes the submitted value verbatim, so the group is well formed and dispatches. `$error_message ||= $tobj->validate($new_value)` takes a type constraint's own failure message, which renders the rejected value through a partial dumper in bracket and comma form (Devel::PartialDump when Moose can load it, Type::Tiny's own dumper always), so a field with `apply => [ Str ]` given a parameter sent more than once, which arrives as an array, gets `Reference [\"a\",\"b\"] did not pass type constraint \"Str\"` as its template, from a re",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:42.311570276Z",
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      "references": [
        "https://cpan.org/modules",
        "https://metacpan.org/release/GSHANK/HTML-FormHandler-0.40068/source/lib/HTML/FormHandler/Field.pm#L861-876",
        "https://metacpan.org/release/GSHANK/HTML-FormHandler-0.40068/source/lib/HTML/FormHandler/I18N/en_us.pm#L9-11",
        "https://metacpan.org/release/GSHANK/HTML-FormHandler-0.40068/source/lib/HTML/FormHandler/Validate.pm#L161-261",
        "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6329",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/4xxx/CVE-2022-4993.json",
        "https://metacpan.org/release/ABRAXXA/HTML-FormHandler-0.410001/changes",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4993",
        "https://github.com/gshank/html-formhandler/pull/159",
        "https://github.com/gshank/html-formhandler/commit/8a204d0e64d8b30f37b19604af9b979413dffd41.patch",
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  "published_at": "2026-08-13T16:27:47.498+00:00"
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