NIST Publishes CVE-2026-115817 for Perl Starman Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

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Published: 2026-10-25
Category: technology
Source: NIST

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published CVE-2026-115817, detailing a denial-of-service vulnerability in Starman versions prior to 0.4019 for Perl. This flaw allows a stalled request body to hold a worker indefinitely, potentially leading to server exhaustion and service disruption. The updated version 0.4019 addresses this by applying `read_timeout` to body data and introducing a `body_timeout` limit.

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