Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow a stalled request body to hold a worker indefinitely, as read_timeout covers only the headers.
Content-Length and chunked request bodies are read with blocking reads and no deadline. A client that sends complete headers and then stalls or trickles the body keeps the worker waiting until it disconnects.
A remote attacker can take every worker with a few such connections, five with the default worker count, so the server stops answering requests.
Version 0.4019 applies read_timeout to each wait for body data and adds a body_timeout limit, 300 seconds by default, on the total time to read a body.
Content-Length and chunked request bodies are read with blocking reads and no deadline. A client that sends complete headers and then stalls or trickles the body keeps the worker waiting until it disconnects.
A remote attacker can take every worker with a few such connections, five with the default worker count, so the server stops answering requests.
Version 0.4019 applies read_timeout to each wait for body data and adds a body_timeout limit, 300 seconds by default, on the total time to read a body.
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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Upgrade to Starman 0.4019 or later.
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Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:15:00 +0000
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| Description | Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow a stalled request body to hold a worker indefinitely, as read_timeout covers only the headers. Content-Length and chunked request bodies are read with blocking reads and no deadline. A client that sends complete headers and then stalls or trickles the body keeps the worker waiting until it disconnects. A remote attacker can take every worker with a few such connections, five with the default worker count, so the server stops answering requests. Version 0.4019 applies read_timeout to each wait for body data and adds a body_timeout limit, 300 seconds by default, on the total time to read a body. | |
| Title | Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow a stalled request body to hold a worker indefinitely, as read_timeout covers only the headers | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CPANSec
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-25T16:50:33.914Z
Reserved: 2026-10-23T16:22:27.039Z
Link: CVE-2026-115817
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NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-25T17:17:00.940
Modified: 2026-10-25T17:17:00.940
Link: CVE-2026-115817
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