Gazelle versions through 0.49 for Perl allows HTTP Request Smuggling via Improper Header Precedence. Gazelle 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 7.5 · kazeburoNVD modified 2026-10-26 19:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:kazeburo:gazelle:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*
References 4
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7230#section-3.3.3 Third Party Advisory
- https://metacpan.org/release/KAZEBURO/Gazelle-0.50/changes Release Notes
- https://security.metacpan.org/patches/G/Gazelle/0.49/CVE-2026-40562-r1.patch Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/06/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory