Description
Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. In versions 1.0.1 and below, when dispatching a request, HTTPEndpoint selects the handler by lowercasing the HTTP method and looking it up as an attribute with getattr, without restricting the lookup to a known set of HTTP verbs. When an HTTPEndpoint subclass is registered through Route(...) without an explicit methods= argument, the route does not constrain the method and every method reaches the endpoint. If a non-standard HTTP method whose lowercased name matches an attribute on the endpoint subclass reaches the endpoint, that attribute is invoked as if it were a request handler. An attacker can use this to reach methods that were never meant to be HTTP handlers, such as internal helpers, without the authorization checks applied by the intended public handler. An application (including Starlette-based frameworks like FastAPI) is affected if it registers an HTTPEndpoint subclass via Route(...) without explicitly setting methods=, and that subclass includes extra methods named like non-standard HTTP verbs that take one request argument and return a response. This issue has been fixed in version 1.1.0.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kludex | starlette | < 1.1.0 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | starlette | 1.1.0-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | starlette | 0.46.1-3+deb13u3 | — |
| Debian 12 | starlette | 0.26.1-1+deb12u2 | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | starlette | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | starlette | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | starlette | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | starlette | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | starlette | No fix yet | — |
SUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLES for SAP 16.0 | python-starlette | 0.41.3-160000.4.1 | SUSE-SU-2026:22360-1 |
| SLES 16.0 | python-starlette | 0.41.3-160000.4.1 | SUSE-SU-2026:22360-1 |
openSUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | python-starlette | 0.41.3-160000.4.1 | openSUSE-SU-2026:21053-1 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | starlette | < 1.1.0 | 1.1.0 | GHSA-x746-7m8f-x49c |
Advisories 2
- SUSE-SU-2026:22360-1 Security update for python-starlette SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Jul 2, 2026
- openSUSE-SU-2026:21053-1 Security update for python-starlette SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Jun 30, 2026