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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-48817 EUVD-2026-37788GHSA-x746-7m8f-x49cPYSEC-2026-2280

Starlette: Arbitrary HTTP method dispatched to `HTTPEndpoint` attributes via `getattr`

Published Jun 17, 2026 · Updated Jun 18, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 starlette 1.1.0-1 —
Debian 13 starlette 0.46.1-3+deb13u3 —
Debian 12 starlette 0.26.1-1+deb12u2 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
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 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
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
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 python-starlette 0.41.3-160000.4.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21053-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI starlette < 1.1.0 1.1.0 GHSA-x746-7m8f-x49c

Advisories 2

References