# CVE-2026-60075: libdate-manip-perl: Date::Manip versions through 7.00 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic backtracking in the unanchored time sub... CVE-2026-60075 is fixed in 2 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-60075, released August 5, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High. - Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-60075 - Priority: High - CVSS: 7.5 (high) - EPSS: 0.0037 - CISA KEV: not listed - Exploited (vendor report): no - Publicly disclosed: no - Published: Jul 30, 2026 ## Description 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. ## Where it's fixed | Platform | Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released | |---|---|---|---|---| | Linux | libdate-manip-perl Debian 14 | 6.99-2 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2026-60075](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2026-60075.md) | Aug 5, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip RHEL 10 | 6.94-5.el10_2.1 | [RHSA-2026:56971](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2026-56971.md) | Aug 20, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip RHEL 8 | 0:6.60-3.el8_10.1 | [RHSA-2026:57562](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2026-57562.md) | Aug 20, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip RHEL 9 | 0:6.85-3.el9_8.1 | [RHSA-2026:56970](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2026-56970.md) | Aug 20, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip almalinux 10 | 6.94-5.el10_2.1 | [ALSA-2026:56971](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2026-56971.md) | Aug 19, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip almalinux 8 | 6.60-3.el8_10.1 | [ALSA-2026:57562](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2026-57562.md) | Aug 20, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip almalinux 9 | 6.85-3.el9_8.1 | [ALSA-2026:56970](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2026-56970.md) | Aug 19, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip amzn 2023 | 6.85-1.amzn2023.0.3 | [ALAS2023-2026-2050](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-2050.md) | Aug 17, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip ol 10 | 0:6.94-5.el10_2.1 | [ELSA-2026-56971](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2026-56971.md) | Aug 19, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip ol 8 | 0:6.60-3.el8_10.1 | [ELSA-2026-57562](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2026-57562.md) | Aug 20, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip ol 9 | 0:6.85-3.el9_8.1 | [ELSA-2026-56970](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2026-56970.md) | Aug 21, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip opensuse-leap 16.0 | 6.960.0-160000.3.1 | [OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21552-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/opensuse-su-2026-21552-1.md) | Aug 10, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip rocky 10 | 0:6.94-5.el10_2.1 | [RLSA-2026:56971](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rlsa-2026-56971.md) | Aug 20, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip rocky 8 | 0:6.60-3.el8_10.1 | [RLSA-2026:57562](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rlsa-2026-57562.md) | Aug 21, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip rocky 9 | 0:6.85-3.el9_8.1 | [RLSA-2026:56970](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rlsa-2026-56970.md) | Aug 20, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip sles 15.6 | 6.70-150000.4.3.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:3551-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-3551-1.md) | Aug 10, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip sles 15.7 | 6.70-150000.4.3.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:3551-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-3551-1.md) | Aug 10, 2026 | | Linux | perl-Date-Manip sles 16.0 | 6.960.0-160000.3.1 | [SUSE-SU-2026:23229-1](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-23229-1.md) | Aug 10, 2026 | --- Data as of 2026-11-08T13:06:02Z UTC. 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