# CVE-2026-116127: Starlet versions before 0.33 for Perl send a body in responses to HEAD requests, corrupting the next response on a persistent or pipelined…

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-113908, GHSA-2PGG-PMMW-6882
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.33
- Published: 2026-10-30 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Summary

Starlet, a Perl web server, is affected before version 0.33. It sends response bodies to HEAD requests, which can corrupt the next response on a persistent or pipelined connection, potentially causing a proxy or client to mix up responses.

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## Affected

- Starlet: fixed in 0.33

## Description

Starlet versions before 0.33 for Perl send a body in responses to HEAD requests, corrupting the next response on a persistent or pipelined connection. The request method is not passed to the response writer, so whatever body the application returns for a HEAD request is sent. With Plack::Middleware::Head the body is empty, but an HTTP/1.1 response without a Content-Length header still gets the chunked encoding terminator. Responses with status 204 or 304 are also sent with their body. Pipelined GET and HEAD requests keep the connection open even when keep-alive is disabled, which is the default. A client or proxy reading the connection takes the extra bytes as the start of the next response, which may desynchronize a proxy that shares the connection across clients.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Starlet, upgrade to a fixed version (0.33) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/kazuho/Starlet/commit/859e0c9572cdbed4bb45706d3957b3c025dc0ede.patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/KAZUHO/Starlet-0.33/changes

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