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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via quadratic regex backtracking when parsing chunked request bodies | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1333 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CPANSec
Published: 2026-10-25T16:51:00.241Z
Updated: 2026-11-02T14:19:20.636Z
Reserved: 2026-10-23T16:47:20.192Z
Link: CVE-2026-115822
Updated: 2026-11-02T14:18:53.005Z
Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-10-25T17:17:01.637
Modified: 2026-11-02T15:17:15.440
Link: CVE-2026-115822
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