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High · 7.4 CVE-2026-25478 EUVD-2026-6496GHSA-2p2x-hpg8-cqp2PYSEC-2026-2195

Litestar has a CORS origin allowlist bypass due to unescaped regex metacharacters in allowed origins

Published Feb 9, 2026 · Updated Feb 10, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. Prior to 2.20.0, CORSConfig.allowed_origins_regex is constructed using a regex built from configured allowlist values and used with fullmatch() for validation. Because metacharacters are not escaped, a malicious origin can match unexpectedly. The check relies on allowed_origins_regex.fullmatch(origin). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.20.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
litestar-org litestar < 2.20.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI litestar >= 2.19.0, < 2.20.0 2.20.0 GHSA-2p2x-hpg8-cqp2
PyPI litestar < 2.20.0 2.20.0 PYSEC-2026-2195

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