CVE-2026-40560

CVE-2026-40560: Starman versions before 0.4018 for Perl allows HTTP Request Smuggling via Improper Header Precedence

Vendor Miyagawa
Product Starman
Weakness CWE-444
Published April 28, 2026
Last update April 29, 2026

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 28, 2026 CVE published
April 29, 2026 Record updated