{"id":"GHSA-jp82-jpqv-5vv3","summary":"Starlette: Unvalidated request path concatenated into authority poisons request.url.hostname","details":"### Summary\n\nIn affected versions, the HTTP request path is not validated before being used to reconstruct `request.url`. Because `request.url` is rebuilt by concatenating `{scheme}://{host}{path}` and re-parsing the result, a path that does not begin with `/` (for example `@google.com`) moves the authority boundary during re-parsing, so `request.url.hostname` and `request.url.netloc` become attacker-controlled. Code that reads `request.url.hostname` (rather than the `Host` header or `scope`) can therefore be misled into trusting an attacker-supplied host.\n\n### Details\n\nWhen a client requests a path that does not start with `/`:\n\n```http\nGET @google.com HTTP/1.1\nHost: localhost\n```\n\naffected versions reconstruct the URL as `http://localhost@google.com`. Per [RFC 3986 §3.2.1](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.html#section-3.2.1), the substring before `@` in the authority is `userinfo`, so re-parsing yields `username = \"localhost\"` and `hostname = \"google.com\"`, with an empty path:\n\n```text\nrequest.url          == \"http://localhost@google.com\"\nrequest.url.hostname == \"google.com\"\nrequest.url.path     == \"\"\n```\n\nThe root cause is that the path is concatenated directly after the host without a separating `/`, and without validating that it begins with one. Only the `Host` header was validated when constructing `request.url`; the path was not.\n\nThis requires an ASGI server that forwards a request-target lacking a leading `/` into `scope[\"path\"]`.\n\n### Impact\n\nAny application running an affected version that uses `request.url`, `request.url.netloc`, or `request.url.hostname` for a security-sensitive decision (host-based authorization, redirect/callback base, SSRF target, cache key, audit log) may be affected, when no fronting proxy or load balancer rejects the malformed request-target first.\n\nNote that this is less exploitable than [GHSA-86qp-5c8j-p5mr](https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-86qp-5c8j-p5mr): there, the poison is carried in the `Host` header, so the real path still routes to a valid endpoint while `request.url.path` lies. Here, the poison must be carried in the path itself, and that path (`@google.com`) does not match any registered route, so routing returns `404` and no endpoint handler runs. The exposure is limited to code that reads `request.url` before routing - notably middleware - or in 404/exception handlers.\n\n### Mitigation\n\nUpgrade to a patched version, which prevents the request path from crossing into the URL authority. The request above instead yields `http://localhost/@google.com` with `request.url.hostname == \"localhost\"`.","aliases":["CVE-2026-54282","PYSEC-2026-248"],"modified":"2026-07-17T21:15:54.071813430Z","published":"2026-06-15T20:38:08Z","database_specific":{"severity":"LOW","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2026-06-15T20:38:08Z","nvd_published_at":"2026-06-22T18:16:46Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-20","CWE-706"]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-jp82-jpqv-5vv3"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54282"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/Kludex/starlette"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/starlette/PYSEC-2026-248.yaml"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"starlette","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/starlette"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.3.0"}]}],"versions":["0.1.0","0.1.1","0.1.10","0.1.11","0.1.12","0.1.13","0.1.14","0.1.15","0.1.16","0.1.17","0.1.2","0.1.3","0.1.4","0.1.5","0.1.6","0.1.7","0.1.8","0.1.9","0.10.0","0.10.1","0.10.2","0.10.3","0.10.4","0.10.5","0.10.6","0.10.7","0.11.0","0.11.1","0.11.2","0.11.3","0.11.4","0.12.0","0.12.0b1","0.12.0b2","0.12.0b3","0.12.1","0.12.10","0.12.11","0.12.12","0.12.13","0.12.2","0.12.3","0.12.4","0.12.5","0.12.6","0.12.7","0.12.8","0.12.9","0.13.0","0.13.1","0.13.2","0.13.3","0.13.4","0.13.5","0.13.6","0.13.7","0.13.8","0.14.0","0.14.1","0.14.2","0.15.0","0.16.0","0.17.0","0.17.1","0.18.0","0.19.0","0.19.1","0.2.0","0.2.1","0.2.2","0.2.3","0.20.0","0.20.1","0.20.2","0.20.3","0.20.4","0.21.0","0.22.0","0.23.0","0.23.1","0.24.0","0.25.0","0.26.0","0.26.0.post1","0.26.1","0.27.0","0.28.0","0.29.0","0.3.0","0.3.1","0.3.2","0.3.3","0.3.4","0.3.5","0.3.6","0.3.7","0.30.0","0.31.0","0.31.1","0.32.0","0.32.0.post1","0.33.0","0.34.0","0.35.0","0.35.1","0.36.0","0.36.1","0.36.2","0.36.3","0.37.0","0.37.1","0.37.2","0.38.0","0.38.1","0.38.2","0.38.3","0.38.4","0.38.5","0.38.6","0.39.0","0.39.1","0.39.2","0.4.0","0.4.1","0.4.2","0.40.0","0.41.0","0.41.1","0.41.2","0.41.3","0.42.0","0.43.0","0.44.0","0.45.0","0.45.1","0.45.2","0.45.3","0.46.0","0.46.1","0.46.2","0.47.0","0.47.1","0.47.2","0.47.3","0.48.0","0.49.0","0.49.1","0.49.2","0.49.3","0.5.0","0.5.1","0.5.2","0.5.3","0.5.4","0.5.5","0.50.0","0.51.0","0.52.0","0.52.1","0.6.0","0.6.1","0.6.2","0.6.3","0.7.0","0.7.1","0.7.2","0.7.3","0.7.4","0.8.0","0.8.1","0.8.2","0.8.3","0.8.4","0.8.5","0.8.6","0.8.7","0.8.8","0.9.0","0.9.1","0.9.10","0.9.11","0.9.2","0.9.3","0.9.4","0.9.5","0.9.6","0.9.7","0.9.8","0.9.9","1.0.0","1.0.0rc1","1.0.1","1.1.0","1.2.0","1.2.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/06/GHSA-jp82-jpqv-5vv3/GHSA-jp82-jpqv-5vv3.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"}]}