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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | Starlette has missing Host header validation that poisons request.url.path, bypassing path-based security checks | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-444 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-26T21:54:54.393Z
Reserved: 2026-05-22T18:47:27.755Z
Link: CVE-2026-48710
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-26T22:16:44.020
Modified: 2026-05-26T22:16:44.020
Link: CVE-2026-48710
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-05-27T00:00:16Z