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CVE-2026-48818: Starlette: SSRF and NTLM credential theft via UNC paths in StaticFiles on Windows

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-06-17 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit. In versions 1.0.1 and earlier, StaticFiles on Windows is vulnerable to SSRF. An UNC path such as \\attacker.com\share can cause os.path.realpath to initiate an outbound SMB connection before the path is rejected, exposing the service account’s NTLMv2 credentials for offline cracking or relay even though the HTTP response is only a 404. The issue affects default follow_symlink=False deployments, including frameworks built on Starlette such as FastAPI; POSIX systems and follow_symlink=True are unaffected. The issue is fixed in 1.1.0.

Affected products

• Kludex starlette: before 1.1.0 — fixed in 1.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kludex starlette 1.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/commit/fd53168a7767b6b55ba5af787fd88f49e33cabc5
• https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/pull/3287
• https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/releases/tag/1.1.0
• https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/security/advisories/GHSA-wqp7-x3pw-xc5r
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/starlette/PYSEC-2026-2281.yaml
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30087
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30088
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30089
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48818
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2490020
• https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-48818.json

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