CVE-2026-25478

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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.

References

https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/security/advisories/GHSA-2p2x-hpg8-cqp2

https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/releases/tag/v2.20.0

https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/commit/eb87703b309efcc0d1b087dcb12784e76b003d5a

https://docs.litestar.dev/2/release-notes/changelog.html#2.20.0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-09

Updated: 2026-02-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00031