CVE 7.5 HIGH

Starlette: request.form() limits silently ignored for application/x-www-form-urlencoded enable DoS_CVE-2026-54283

7.5 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-54283
Source GitHub_M
Published Jun 22, 2026 at 16:46

Affected Product

Vendor Kludex
Product starlette
Version >= 0.4.1, < 1.3.1
Affected Versions Kludex starlette >= 0.4.1, < 1.3.1

CWE Classification

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