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CVE-2026-40561
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-05-03T01:15:58.390 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:45:27.120

Summary

Starlet versions through 0.31 for Perl allows HTTP Request Smuggling via Improper Header Precedence. Starlet incorrectly prioritizes "Content-Length" over "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" when both headers are present in an HTTP request. Per RFC 7230 3.3.3, Transfer-Encoding must take precedence. An attacker could exploit this to smuggle malicious HTTP requests via a front-end reverse proxy.

Affected products

kazuho — starlet

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References

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