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CVE-2026-48817: Starlette: Arbitrary HTTP method dispatched to `HTTPEndpoint` attributes via `getattr`

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 21/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.21% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • Fixed version: Kludex starlette 1.1.0.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Kludex starlette 1.1.0 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. In versions 1.0.1 and below, when dispatching a request, HTTPEndpoint selects the handler by lowercasing the HTTP method and looking it up as an attribute with getattr, without restricting the lookup to a known set of HTTP verbs. When an HTTPEndpoint subclass is registered through Route(...) without an explicit methods= argument, the route does not constrain the method and every method reaches the endpoint. If a non-standard HTTP method whose lowercased name matches an attribute on the endpoint subclass reaches the endpoint, that attribute is invoked as if it were a request handler. An attacker can use this to reach methods that were never meant to be HTTP handlers, such as internal helpers, without the authorization checks applied by the intended public handler. An application (including Starlette-based frameworks like FastAPI) is affected if it registers an HTTPEndpoint subclass via Route(...) without explicitly setting methods=, and that subclass includes extra methods named like non-standard HTTP verbs that take one request argument and return a response. This issue has been fixed in version 1.1.0.

MediumCVSS 5.3 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jun 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 25, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 11th percentile

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Action score

21

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · GitHub_M
5.3
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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
encodestarlette

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • encode starlettebefore 1.1.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Kludex starlette

    • < 1.1.0affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12starlettebefore 0.26.1-1+deb12u20.26.1-1+deb12u2
Debian:13starlettebefore 0.46.1-3+deb13u30.46.1-3+deb13u3
Debian:14starlettebefore 1.1.0-11.1.0-1
openSUSE:Leap 16.0python-starlettebefore 0.41.3-160000.4.10.41.3-160000.4.1
PyPIstarlettebefore 1.1.01.1.0
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 16.0python-starlettebefore 0.41.3-160000.4.10.41.3-160000.4.1

Same product

encode: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-48710Starlette has missing Host header validation that poisons request.url.path, bypassing path-based security checksKEV
    77This week
  • CVE-2024-47874Starlette Denial of service (DoS) via multipart/form-data
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2023-29159Directory traversal vulnerability in Starlette versions 0.13.5 and later and prior to 0.27.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to vie
    31Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-54121Jul 21, 2025 · Starlette has possible denial-of-service vector when parsing large files in multipart forms
    21Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-48818Jun 17, 2026 · Starlette: SSRF and NTLM credential theft via UNC paths in StaticFiles on Windows
    30Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-54282Jun 22, 2026 · Starlette: Unvalidated request path concatenated into authority poisons request.url.hostname
    21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Kludex starlette1.1.0 · descriptionVendor (CNA)
debian:starlette0.26.1-1+deb12u2 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:python-starlette0.41.3-160000.4.1 · openSUSE:Leap 16.0Package registry (OSV)
PyPI:starlette1.1.0Package registry (OSV)
suse:python-starlette0.41.3-160000.4.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 16.0Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
Low
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-470 · Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

nvd-secondary

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

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References

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