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SCA: security update for starlette (GHSA-7f5h-v6xp-fcq8)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435838

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. Starting in version 0.39.0 and prior to version 0.49.1
 , an unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted HTTP Range header that triggers quadratic-time processing
 in Starlette's FileResponse Range parsing/merging logic. This enables CPU exhaustion per request, causing
 denial‑of‑service for endpoints serving files (e.g., StaticFiles or any use of FileResponse). This
 vulnerability is fixed in 0.49.1. (CVE-2025-62727)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7f5h-v6xp-fcq8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435838

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-62727

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-62727