PYSEC-2026-249

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2026-54283
Aliases
GHSA-82w8-qh3p-5jfq
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. From 0.4.1 until 1.3.1, request.form() accepts max_fields and max_part_size to bound resource consumption while parsing form data. These limits are enforced for multipart/form-data, but silently ignored for application/x-www-form-urlencoded. An unauthenticated attacker can therefore send a urlencoded body with an arbitrarily large number of fields or an arbitrarily large field, even when the application configured limits it believed would apply. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.3.1.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · starletteintroduced 0.4.1, fixed 1.3.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database