Starlette: SSRF and NTLM credential theft via UNC paths in StaticFiles on Windows
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 71% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. In versions 1.0.1 and earlier, StaticFiles on Windows is vulnerable to SSRF. An UNC path such as \\attacker.com\share can cause os.path.realpath to initiate an outbound SMB connection before the path is rejected, exposing the service account’s NTLMv2 credentials for offline cracking or relay even though the HTTP response is only a 404. The issue affects default follow_symlink=False deployments, including frameworks built on Starlette such as FastAPI; POSIX systems and follow_symlink=True are unaffected. The issue is fixed in 1.1.0.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Kludex · starletteReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30087https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30088https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30089https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48818https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2490020https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/commit/fd53168a7767b6b55ba5af787fd88f49e33cabc5https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/pull/3287https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/releases/tag/1.1.0https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-wqp7-x3pw-xc5rhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-48818.json