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.
Scores
CVSS v3
7.4
EPSS
0.0002
EPSS Percentile
5.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-942
Status
published
Products (2)
litestar/litestar
< 2.20.0
pypi/litestar
2.19.0 - 2.20.0PyPI
Published
Feb 09, 2026
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026