CVE-2026-115824 Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded buffering of chunked request bodies
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-115824?
CVE-2026-115824 is a vulnerability, published on 25 Oct 2026.
Official description
Starman versions before 0.4019 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded buffering of chunked request bodies.
The chunked body decoder keeps each chunk in memory until the whole chunk and its CRLF have arrived, and sets no limit on the length of a chunk-size line. A client that declares a huge chunk size and streams data, or sends a chunk-size line that never ends, grows the buffer for as long as it keeps sending.
A remote attacker can exhaust worker memory with a single connection.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-115824?
How do I fix CVE-2026-115824?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2026-115824 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-115824 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2026-115824, GHSA-frrh-cv34-87px, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-115824.