{ "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 allow memory exhaustion via unbounded buffering of chunked request bodies.\n\nThe chunked body decoder keeps each chunk in memory until the whole chunk and its CRLF have arrived, and sets no limit on the length of a chunk-size line. A client that declares a huge chunk size and streams data, or sends a chunk-size line that never ends, grows the buffer for as long as it keeps sending.\n\nA remote attacker can exhaust worker memory with a single connection.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-Starman-2026-115824 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-starman-2026-115824.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman/commit/0f33f9b132b5e410d6cce722ff71988e22476acf.patch", "url": "https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman/commit/0f33f9b132b5e410d6cce722ff71988e22476acf.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman/commit/d789a02dbe5408ef5f7a4659078d0008dd84c308.patch", "url": "https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman/commit/d789a02dbe5408ef5f7a4659078d0008dd84c308.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-2026-115824 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115824" } ], "title": "Starman vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-10-25T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-Starman-2026-115824", "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-2026-115824", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-770", "name": "Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded buffering of chunked request bodies.\n\nThe chunked body decoder keeps each chunk in memory until the whole chunk and its CRLF have arrived, and sets no limit on the length of a chunk-size line. A client that declares a huge chunk size and streams data, or sends a chunk-size line that never ends, grows the buffer for as long as it keeps sending.\n\nA remote attacker can exhaust worker memory with a single connection.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 7.5, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }