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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

CVE-2026-40561

Starlet versions through 0.31 for Perl allows HTTP Request Smuggling via Improper Header Precedence

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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

KAZUHO Starlet

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to ≤ 0.31affected

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