Litestar and Starlite vulnerable to Path Traversal

SummaryLocal File Inclusion via Path Traversal in LiteStar Static File ServingA Local File Inclusion LFI vulnerability has been discovered in the static file serving component of LiteStar. This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit path traversal flaws, enabling unauthorized access to sensiti...

PT-2026-59259

Summary Local File Inclusion via Path Traversal in LiteStar Static File Serving A Local File Inclusion LFI vulnerability has been discovered in the static file serving component of LiteStar. This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit path traversal flaws, enabling unauthorized access to...

PT-2026-59258

Overview Litestar instances which use a template engine in conjunction with CSRF protection are vulnerable to HTML Injection which can be escalated to Cross Site Scripting due to the contents of the CSRF cookie being excluded from automatic escaping by the template engine when configured inline...

PYSEC-2026-1553 Litestar X-Forwarded-For Header Spoofing Vulnerability Enables Rate Limit Evasion

While testing Litestar's RateLimitMiddleware, I discovered that rate limits can be completely bypassed by manipulating the X-Forwarded-For header. This renders IP-based rate limiting ineffective against determined attackers. The Problem Litestar's RateLimitMiddleware uses cachekeyfromrequest to...

Litestar X-Forwarded-For Header Spoofing Vulnerability Enables Rate Limit Evasion

While testing Litestar's RateLimitMiddleware, I discovered that rate limits can be completely bypassed by manipulating the X-Forwarded-For header. This renders IP-based rate limiting ineffective against determined attackers. The ProblemLitestar's RateLimitMiddleware uses cachekeyfromrequest to...

Litestar and Starlite vulnerable to Path Traversal

SummaryLocal File Inclusion via Path Traversal in LiteStar Static File ServingA Local File Inclusion LFI vulnerability has been discovered in the static file serving component of LiteStar. This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit path traversal flaws, enabling unauthorized access to sensiti...

PYSEC-2026-1552 Litestar and Starlite vulnerable to Path Traversal

Summary Local File Inclusion via Path Traversal in LiteStar Static File Serving A Local File Inclusion LFI vulnerability has been discovered in the static file serving component of LiteStar. This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit path traversal flaws, enabling unauthorized access to...

PYSEC-2026-1944 Litestar allows unbounded resource consumption (DoS vulnerability)

Summary Litestar offers multiple methods to return a parsed representation of the request body, as well as extractors that rely on those parsers to map request content to structured data types. Multiple of those parsers do not have size limits when reading the request body into memory, which allo...

Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

Overview litestar is a Litestar - A production-ready, highly performant, extensible ASGI API Framework Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision through the AllowedHostsMiddleware in the host validation middleware. An attacker can bypa...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview litestar is a Litestar - A production-ready, highly performant, extensible ASGI API Framework Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS through the Template response rendering path in the HTML template components. An attacker can inject arbitrary HTML o...

Litestar has HTML Injection Through its CSRF Token

Overview Litestar instances which use a template engine in conjunction with CSRF protection are vulnerable to HTML Injection which can be escalated to Cross Site Scripting due to the contents of the CSRF cookie being excluded from automatic escaping by the template engine when configured inline...

GHSA-542P-WVX7-72M4 Litestar has HTML Injection Through its CSRF Token

Overview Litestar instances which use a template engine in conjunction with CSRF protection are vulnerable to HTML Injection which can be escalated to Cross Site Scripting due to the contents of the CSRF cookie being excluded from automatic escaping by the template engine when configured inline...

CVE-2026-48061

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2026-05-20 16:46:22+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/security/advisories/GHSA-3qmc-cj7q-62hv...

CVE-2026-25480

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface ASGI framework. Prior to 2.20.0, FileStore maps cache keys to filenames using Unicode NFKD normalization and ord substitution without separators, creating key collisions. When FileStore is used as response-cache backend, an unauthenticated remo...

CVE-2026-25479

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface ASGI framework. Prior to 2.20.0, in litestar.middleware.allowedhosts, allowlist entries are compiled into regex patterns in a way that allows regex metacharacters to retain special meaning e.g., . matches any character. This enables a bypass...

CVE-2026-25478

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface ASGI framework. Prior to 2.20.0, CORSConfig.allowedoriginsregex is constructed using a regex built from configured allowlist values and used with fullmatch for validation. Because metacharacters are not escaped, a malicious origin can match...

PYSEC-2026-2197

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface ASGI framework. Prior to 2.20.0, FileStore maps cache keys to filenames using Unicode NFKD normalization and ord substitution without separators, creating key collisions. When FileStore is used as response-cache backend, an unauthenticated remo...

PYSEC-2026-2197

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface ASGI framework. Prior to 2.20.0, FileStore maps cache keys to filenames using Unicode NFKD normalization and ord substitution without separators, creating key collisions. When FileStore is used as response-cache backend, an unauthenticated remo...

PYSEC-2026-2196

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface ASGI framework. Prior to 2.20.0, in litestar.middleware.allowedhosts, allowlist entries are compiled into regex patterns in a way that allows regex metacharacters to retain special meaning e.g., . matches any character. This enables a bypass...

PYSEC-2026-2195

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface ASGI framework. Prior to 2.20.0, CORSConfig.allowedoriginsregex is constructed using a regex built from configured allowlist values and used with fullmatch for validation. Because metacharacters are not escaped, a malicious origin can match...