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            "text": "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.",
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