CVE-2026-40560

· NIST NVD ↗

Starman versions before 0.4018 for Perl allows HTTP Request Smuggling via Improper Header Precedence. Starman 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.

HIGH
CVSS severity
7.5
CVSS base score
2026-04-29
Published

CWE codes

CWE-444

Affected products

miyagawa:starman

Sources