Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2026-40560 (2026-04-28)

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.

Changes for version 0.2000 - 2010-04-13

  • INCOMPATIBLE: starman executable by default loads the application with Delayed to be safer. Use --preload-app command line option to preload the application in the master process. See `starman --help` for details.

Documentation

Starman launcher

Modules

Plack adapter for Starman
High-performance preforking PSGI web server

Provides

in lib/HTTP/Server/PSGI/Net/Server/PreFork.pm
in lib/Starman/Server.pm