CVE-2026-115822

Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.

Description

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.

Severity

Not scored

CVSS score

Not available

Vulnerability status

Deferred

Source identifier

9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

Published

2026-10-25 17:17:01.637000

Last modified

2026-10-26 17:13:55.323000

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{
  "id": "CVE-2026-115822",
  "sourceIdentifier": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e",
  "published": "2026-10-25T17:17:01.637",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-26T17:13:55.323",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic regex backtracking when parsing chunked request bodies.\n\nStarman 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.\n\nA remote attacker can exhaust worker CPU by sending such requests to any route."
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "source": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e",
      "affectedData": [
        {
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "collectionURL": "https://cpan.org/modules",
          "packageName": "Starman",
          "modules": [
            "Starman"
          ],
          "programFiles": [
            "lib/Starman/Server.pm"
          ],
          "programRoutines": [
            {
              "name": "Starman::Server::_prepare_env"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman",
          "packageURL": "pkg:cpan/Starman",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "0",
              "lessThan": "0.4019",
              "versionType": "custom",
              "status": "affected"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "metrics": {},
  "weaknesses": [
    {
      "source": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e",
      "type": "Secondary",
      "description": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "CWE-1333"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman/commit/0f33f9b132b5e410d6cce722ff71988e22476acf.patch",
      "source": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/MIYAGAWA/Starman-0.4019/changes",
      "source": "9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e"
    }
  ]
}