CVE-2023-29159

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.5
EPSS: EPSS 2.05 % · percentile 81 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-06-01
Updated: 2025-01-09
Assigner: jpcert
NVD status: Modified

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Starlette versions 0.13.5 and later and prior to 0.27.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to view files in a web service which was built using Starlette.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

Advisories

GHSA-v5gw-mw7f-84px — Starlette has Path Traversal vulnerability in StaticFiles
PYSEC-2023-83 — Directory traversal vulnerability in Starlette versions 0.13.5 and later and prior to 0.27.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to view files in a web ser

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-0245
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-29159

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:encode:starlette:*:*:*:*:*:python:*:* ≥ 0.13.5 < 0.27.0

Affected products

Product	Versions
Encode · Starlette	affected versions 0.13.5 and later and prior to 0.27.0

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD