CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-48710
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Kludex Starlette HTTP Request/Response Smuggling Vulnerability — Kludex Starlette
Kludex Starlette contains a HTTP request/response smuggling vulnerability that could allow attackers to inject paths into the host part, prepending the actual path leading to issues such as authentication bypass when the authentication depends on the reconstructed URL’s path. This vulnerability could be chaned with CVE-2026-42271.
- Added to KEV
- 2026-09-02
- Remediation due
- 2026-09-16
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Required action
- Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
- Notes
- This vulnerability affects an open-source component, third-party library, protocol, or proprietary implementation that could be used by different products. For more information, please see: https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-86qp-5c8j-p5mr ; BOD 26-04: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk ; Forensics Triage Requirements: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48710
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-26
- Last modified
- 2026-10-01
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1289, CWE-444
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• encode starlette (>= 0.8.3 < 1.0.1)
• redhat ai inference server (>= 3.3.0 <= 3.3.5)
• redhat ansible automation platform 2.6
• redhat ansible automation platform 2.7
• redhat migration toolkit for applications (< 8.2.0)
• redhat openshift ai (>= 3.3 < 3.3.5)
• redhat openshift ai (>= 3.4 < 3.4.2)
• redhat openshift lightspeed
• redhat satellite 6.17
• redhat satellite 6.18
• redhat satellite 6.19
• redhat enterprise linux ai 3.0
Related
References
- https://badhost.org Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/commit/764dab0dcfb9033d75442d7a359645c9f94648c6 Patch
- https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-86qp-5c8j-p5mr Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/starlette/PYSEC-2026-161.yaml Third Party Advisory
- https://ostif.org/disclosing-the-badhost-vulnerability-in-starlette Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.secwest.net/starlette Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2026-002-starlette Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22992 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22993 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23346 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24866 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26226 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30088 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30089 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34456 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34526 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34532 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37275 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:43038 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:44696 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:51357 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60520 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:63337 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48710 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2481742 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-48710.json Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-48710 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://www.wiz.io/blog/ai-infrastructure-honeypot Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https:/www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/08/26/when-ai-infrastructure-becomes-target-securing-gateways-control-points Broken Link