GHSA-86QP-5C8J-P5MR Starlette has missing Host header validation that poisons request.url.path, bypassing path-based security checks

Summary In affected versions, 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 pa...

HTTP Request Smuggling

Overview starlette is a The little ASGI library that shines. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling via the request.url reconstruction process. An attacker can bypass path-based security checks by supplying a malformed Host header that causes request.url.path t...

CVE-2026-48710 Starlette has missing Host header validation that poisons request.url.path, bypassing path-based security checks

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...