Litestar is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. Prior to 2.20.0, in litestar.middleware.allowed_hosts, allowlist entries are compiled into regex patterns in a way that allows regex metacharacters to retain special meaning (e.g., . matches any character). This enables a bypass where an attacker supplies a host that matches the regex but is not the intended literal hostname. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.20.0.
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-93ph-p7v4-hwh4 Litestar's AllowedHosts has a validation bypass due to unescaped regex metacharacters in configured host patterns
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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, in litestar.middleware.allowed_hosts, allowlist entries are compiled into regex patterns in a way that allows regex metacharacters to retain special meaning (e.g., . matches any character). This enables a bypass where an attacker supplies a host that matches the regex but is not the intended literal hostname. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.20.0.
Title Litestar has an AllowedHosts validation bypass due to unescaped regex metacharacters in configured host patterns
Weaknesses CWE-185
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2026-02-09T18:48:19.971Z

Reserved: 2026-02-02T16:31:35.821Z

Link: CVE-2026-25479

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-02-09T20:15:57.177

Modified: 2026-02-09T21:55:30.093

Link: CVE-2026-25479

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