CVE-2026-40560 (GCVE-0-2026-40560)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-28 23:46
Modified
2026-04-29 19:06
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Summary
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.
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