CVE-2026-48710
Medium · CVSS 6.5Starlette — 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
Candidate PoCs (3) — discovered, not yet vetted or ranked
- eris-ths/supply-chain-guard★ 3nomi_sec
- ★ 1
- ★ 0
Recall-favoring discovery (nomi-sec + trickest). Vetting + ranking is the Stage-4 scorer.
References
- https://badhost.org
- https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/commit/764dab0dcfb9033d75442d7a359645c9f94648c6
- https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-86qp-5c8j-p5mr
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/starlette/PYSEC-2026-161.yaml
- https://ostif.org/disclosing-the-badhost-vulnerability-in-starlette
- https://www.secwest.net/starlette
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2026-002-starlette
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48710
- https://badhost.org
- https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/commit/764dab0dcfb9033d75442d7a359645c9f94648c6
- https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-86qp-5c8j-p5mr
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/starlette/PYSEC-2026-161.yaml
Status: enriched · ingested 2026-06-16T18:00:52.000Z · profiled 2026-06-16T18:20:23.035Z