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CVE-2026-40561

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2026-05-03 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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 Platforms

Kazuho Starlet

Weakness Type

CWE-444

References