# CVE-2025-62727: Starlette vulnerable to O(n^2) DoS via Range header merging in starlette.responses.FileResponse

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-1942, GHSA-7F5H-V6XP-FCQ8
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 0.49.1
- Published: 2025-10-28 · Updated: 2025-11-04

## Affected

- Kludex starlette: from 0.39.0, fixed in 0.49.1
- starlette (PyPI): from 0.39.0, fixed in 0.49.1

## Description

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. Starting in version 0.39.0 and prior to version 0.49.1 , an unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted HTTP Range header that triggers quadratic-time processing in Starlette's FileResponse Range parsing/merging logic. This enables CPU exhaustion per request, causing denial‑of‑service for endpoints serving files (e.g., StaticFiles or any use of FileResponse). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.49.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Kludex starlette, starlette, upgrade to a fixed version (0.49.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-7f5h-v6xp-fcq8
- https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/commit/4ea6e22b489ec388d6004cfbca52dd5b147127c5
- https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/commit/69ed26a85956ef4bd0161807eb27abf49be7cd3c
- https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/releases/tag/0.49.1
- https://github.com/ch4n3-yoon/CVE-2025-62727-Demo

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