CVE-2026-25478 (GCVE-0-2026-25478)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-09 18:46 – Updated: 2026-02-10 16:01
VLAI?
Title
Litestar has a CORS origin allowlist bypass due to unescaped regex metacharacters in allowed origins
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.4 (High)
CWE
- CWE-942 - Permissive Cross-domain Policy with Untrusted Domains
Assigner
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Impacted products
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| litestar-org | litestar |
Affected:
< 2.20.0
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Nomenclature
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