Upstream information

CVE-2026-40560 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (CISA-ADP)
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1263364 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Apr 29 02:32:20 2026
CVE page last modified: Thu Apr 30 12:43:50 2026