CVE-2026-54283

HIGH

Starlette: request.form() limits silently ignored for application/x-www-form-urlencoded enable DoS

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. From 0.4.1 until 1.3.1, request.form() accepts max_fields and max_part_size to bound resource consumption while parsing form data. These limits are enforced for multipart/form-data, but silently ignored for application/x-www-form-urlencoded. An unauthenticated attacker can therefore send a urlencoded body with an arbitrarily large number of fields or an arbitrarily large field, even when the application configured limits it believed would apply. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.3.1.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0040
EPSS Percentile 32.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (2)
encode/starlette 0.4.1 - 1.3.1
Kludex/starlette >= 0.4.1, < 1.3.1
Published Jun 22, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 22, 2026