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CVE-2026-48710

Medium · CVSS 6.5

Starlette — HTTP Host header validation bypass / HTTP Request Smuggling (CWE-444, CWE-1289)

CVSS
6.5
nvd
EPSS
0.91%
55th pct
KEV
No
Class
other
CWE-444, CWE-1289

Description

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. Prior to version 1.0.1, the HTTP `Host` request header was not validated before being used to reconstruct `request.url`. Because the routing algorithm relies on the raw HTTP path while `request.url` is rebuilt from the `Host` header, a malformed header could make `request.url.path` differ from the path that was actually requested. Middleware and endpoints that apply security restrictions based on `request.url` (rather than the raw `scope` path) could therefore be bypassed. Users should upgrade to a version greater than or equal to version 1.0.1, which validates the `Host` header against the grammar of RFC 9112 §3.2 / RFC 3986 §3.2.2 when constructing `request.url` and falls back to `scope["server"]` for malformed values.

Search profile — drives PoC discovery

Symbols request.urlscope["server"]Hostrequest.url.pathscopeRFC 9112RFC 3986ASGIrouting algorithm
Keywords CVE-2026-48710StarletteHost header validationrequest.url bypassGHSA-86qp-5c8j-p5mrPYSEC-2026-161badhostBadHostmiddleware bypassASGI Host headerStarlette security bypassStarlette 1.0.1scope server fallback
Versions: < 1.0.1

Candidate PoCs (3) — discovered, not yet vetted or ranked

Recall-favoring discovery (nomi-sec + trickest). Vetting + ranking is the Stage-4 scorer.

References

Status: enriched · ingested 2026-06-16T18:00:52.000Z · profiled 2026-06-16T18:20:23.035Z