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CVE-2026-115866 Starlet versions from 0.20 before 0.33 for Perl allow CPU exhaustion via regular expression backtracking when decoding chunked request bodies

🗓️ 30 Oct 2026 12:45:39Reported by CPANSecType 
cvelist
 cvelist
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Remote CPU exhaustion in Starlet for Perl via regex backtracking on chunked bodies.

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circl
Circl
CVE-2026-115866
30 Oct 202612:50
–circl
cve
CVE
CVE-2026-115866
30 Oct 202612:45
–cve
euvd
EUVD
EUVD-2026-113907
30 Oct 202612:45
–euvd
nvd
NVD
CVE-2026-115866
30 Oct 202613:18
–nvd
ptsecurity
Positive Technologies
PT-2026-133520
30 Oct 202600:00
–ptsecurity
rapid7
Rapid7 Vulnerability Database (full)
CVE-2026-115866: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (ReDoS)
30 Oct 202600:00
–rapid7
[
  {
    "collectionURL": "https://cpan.org/modules",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "modules": [
      "Starlet"
    ],
    "packageName": "Starlet",
    "packageURL": "pkg:cpan/Starlet",
    "programFiles": [
      "lib/Starlet/Server.pm"
    ],
    "programRoutines": [
      {
        "name": "Starlet::Server::handle_connection"
      }
    ],
    "repo": "https://github.com/kazuho/Starlet",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "0.33",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0.20",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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