Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2026-40561 (2026-05-03)

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.

Changes for version 0.19

  • update the dependencies now that Plack no more depends on LWP (miyagawa; https://github.com/plack/Plack/pull/408)
  • add support for psgix.harakiri (audreyt)

Modules

a simple, high-performance PSGI/Plack HTTP server

Provides

in lib/Plack/Handler/Starlet.pm
in lib/Starlet/Server.pm