{"id":"CVE-2026-115817","title":"Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow a stalled request body to hold a worker indefinitely, as read_timeout covers only the headers","summary":"Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow a stalled request body to hold a worker indefinitely, as read_timeout covers only the headers.\n\nContent-Length and chunked request bodies are read with blocking reads and no deadline. A clien…","severity":"none","cwe":["CWE-770"],"product":"Starman","affected":["Starman < 0.4019"],"published":"2026-10-25","updated":"2026-10-25","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-25T16:50:33.914Z","source":"CVEORG","sourceUrl":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-115817","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman/commit/89dffd3bdc9baa1cbe1b48a43615586ba2588558.patch"},{"url":"https://github.com/miyagawa/Starman/commit/a30533c03051502d6b67cd48b3a95a61e129691b.patch"},{"url":"https://metacpan.org/release/MIYAGAWA/Starman-0.4019/changes"}],"tags":["cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-25T22:08:29.931Z","slug":"CVE-2026-115817","body":"## Overview\n\nStarman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow a stalled request body to hold a worker indefinitely, as read_timeout covers only the headers.\n\nContent-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.\n\nA remote attacker can take every worker with a few such connections, five with the default worker count, so the server stops answering requests.\n\nVersion 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.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `Starman < 0.4019`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to Starman 0.4019 or later.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":3,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":2.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}