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.
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History
25 Oct 2026, 17:17
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Information
Published : 2026-10-25 17:17
Updated : 2026-10-26 17:13
NVD link : CVE-2026-115817
Mitre link : CVE-2026-115817
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-115817
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Products Affected
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CWE
CWE-770
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
