PYSEC-2026-1942 Starlette vulnerable to O(n^2) DoS via Range header merging in ``starlette.responses.FileResponse``

Summary An unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted HTTP Range header that triggers quadratic-time processing in Starlette's FileResponse Range parsing/merging logic. This enables CPU exhaustion per request, causing denial‑of‑service for endpoints serving files e.g., StaticFiles or any use of...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-62727

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. Starting in version 0.39.0 and prior to version 0.49.1 , an unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted HTTP Range header that triggers quadratic-time processing in Starlette's FileResponse Range parsing/merging logic. This enables CPU exhaustion...