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

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What is CVE-2026-48710?

CVE-2026-48710 is a vulnerability classified as Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling'), affecting starlette (affected versions: < 1.0.1). This vulnerability is rated Medium, with a CVSS score of 6.5. This vulnerability has been observed being exploited in the wild.

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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.

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