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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.3 · kazuhoNVD modified 2026-10-26 20:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:kazuho:starlet:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*
References 4
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7230#section-3.3.3 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kazuho/Starlet/commit/a7d5dfd1862aafa43e5eaca0fdb6acf4cc15b2d0.patch Patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/KAZUHO/Starlet-0.32/changes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/03/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory