Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic regex backtracking when parsing chunked request bodies.
Starman decodes chunked request bodies before calling the application, matching each chunk-size line with `s/^(([0-9a-fA-F]+).*\015\012)//`. A line of hex digits followed by a bare LF and then CRLF never matches, because `.` does not match LF, and each failed attempt backtracks in time quadratic in the length of the hex run. Nothing limits the length of the line.
A remote attacker can exhaust worker CPU by sending such requests to any route.
CVSS
No CVSS.
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Configurations
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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-2026-115822
Mitre link : CVE-2026-115822
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-115822
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Products Affected
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CWE
CWE-1333
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
