01 Record
CVE-2026-25478
Litestar has a CORS origin allowlist bypass due to unescaped regex metacharacters in allowed origins
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: GitHub_M
CNA base score7.4 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
02 Description
Litestar has a CORS origin allowlist bypass due to unescaped regex metacharacters in allowed origins
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
- Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.44% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 38.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-02-09 18:46Z8 MO AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-02-10 16:01Z8 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-02-02
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.4)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-942Permissive Cross-domain Security Policy with Untrusted DomainsVariant
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 916db8480da91479dbdfccd91186ffe3a1d89ef594153bb57ee7343968b1b78f
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/security/advisories/GHSA-2p2x-hpg8-cqp2
- github.comhttps://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/commit/eb87703b309efcc0d1b087dcb12784e76b003d5a
- docs.litestar.devhttps://docs.litestar.dev/2/release-notes/changelog.html#2.20.0
- github.comhttps://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/releases/tag/v2.20.0