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CVE-2026-40561
Summary

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.

Publication Date May 3, 2026, 10:15 a.m.
Registration Date May 4, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
Last Update May 3, 2026, 2:15 p.m.
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