Litestar has an AllowedHosts validation bypass due to unescaped regex metacharacters in configured host patterns
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 74% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. Prior to 2.20.0, in litestar.middleware.allowed_hosts, 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 where an attacker supplies a host that matches the regex but is not the intended literal hostname. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.20.0.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected products
litestar-org · litestarReferences
https://docs.litestar.dev/2/release-notes/changelog.html#2.20.0https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/commit/06b36f481d1bfea6f19995cfb4f203aba45c4acehttps://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/releases/tag/v2.20.0https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/security/advisories/GHSA-93ph-p7v4-hwh4