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CVE-2026-54282PYSEC-2026-248GHSA-JP82-JPQV-5VV3

Starlette: Unvalidated request path concatenated into authority poisons request.url.hostname

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.3.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. Prior to 1.3.0, the HTTP request path is not validated before being used to reconstruct request.url. Because request.url is rebuilt by concatenating {scheme}://{host}{path} and re-parsing the result, a path that does not begin with / (for example @google.com) moves the authority boundary during re-parsing, so request.url.hostname and request.url.netloc become attacker-controlled. Code that reads request.url.hostname (rather than the Host header or scope) can therefore be misled into trusting an attacker-supplied host. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.3.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Kludex starlette

    fixed in 1.3.0

  • starlettePyPI

    fixed in 1.3.0

References 1

GitHub · Kludex/starlette