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Starlette has missing Host header validation that poisons request.url.path, bypassing path-based security checks

CVE-2026-48710

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.

Nuclei Template
CVSS Base Score
6.5
MEDIUM
Exploitability:3.9
Impact Score:2.6
Temporal Score:-
EPSS:1.44%

Threat Intelligence Signals

CISA KEV
No
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VulnCheck In-the-Wild
No
Nuclei Template
YES
EPSS Score
1.438%
EPSS Percentile
69.9th pct
GitHub Severity
MODERATE

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