{ "document": { "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl send response bodies for HEAD requests, desynchronizing responses on keep-alive connections.\n\nFor a HEAD request Starman omits chunked framing but still writes the body returned by the application, on both the array and streaming response paths. Responses with a 1xx, 204 or 304 status also carry the body.\n\nOn a keep-alive or pipelined connection the client reads those bytes as the start of the next response. A front-end proxy that reuses upstream connections may then pair responses with the wrong requests.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-Starman-2026-115823 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-starman-2026-115823.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman/commit/91c47c529cd1e100f938486896ea9083ec3ec7bf.patch", "url": "https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman/commit/91c47c529cd1e100f938486896ea9083ec3ec7bf.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/MIYAGAWA/Starman-0.4019/changes", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/MIYAGAWA/Starman-0.4019/changes" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2026-115823 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115823" } ], "title": "Starman vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-10-25T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-Starman-2026-115823", "initial_release_date": "2026-10-25T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-10-25T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/<0.4019", "product": { "name": "Starman less than 0.4019", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Starman" } } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>=0.4019", "product": { "name": "Starman greater than or equal 0.4019", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0002", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Starman" } } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "Starman" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-115823", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-444", "name": "Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl send response bodies for HEAD requests, desynchronizing responses on keep-alive connections.\n\nFor a HEAD request Starman omits chunked framing but still writes the body returned by the application, on both the array and streaming response paths. Responses with a 1xx, 204 or 304 status also carry the body.\n\nOn a keep-alive or pipelined connection the client reads those bytes as the start of the next response. A front-end proxy that reuses upstream connections may then pair responses with the wrong requests.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 9.1, "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }