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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-25479 EUVD-2026-6497GHSA-93ph-p7v4-hwh4PYSEC-2026-2196

Litestar has an AllowedHosts validation bypass due to unescaped regex metacharacters in configured host patterns

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, 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
litestar-org litestar < 2.20.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI litestar >= 2.19.0, < 2.20.0 2.20.0 GHSA-93ph-p7v4-hwh4
PyPI litestar < 2.20.0 2.20.0 PYSEC-2026-2196

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