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.
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Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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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.
Title Litestar has a CORS origin allowlist bypass due to unescaped regex metacharacters in allowed origins
Weaknesses CWE-942
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-09T18:46:56.445Z

Reserved: 2026-02-02T16:31:35.820Z

Link: CVE-2026-25478

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-02-09T20:15:57.017

Modified: 2026-02-09T20:15:57.017

Link: CVE-2026-25478

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