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 0.29_90 - 2011-12-01

  • Changed the way server handles HUP and QUIT signals HUP will just restart all the workers gracefully QUIT will gracefully shutdown workers and the master See `man 1 starman` and look for SIGNALS section.

Documentation

Starman launcher

Modules

Plack adapter for Starman
High-performance preforking PSGI/Plack web server

Provides

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