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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2026-48818 json

Starlette: SSRF and NTLM credential theft via UNC paths in StaticFiles on Windows

published 2026-06-15 4 mo ago modified 2026-10-26 13 d ago also GHSA-wqp7-x3pw-xc5r , PYSEC-2026-2281 , EUVD-2026-37773

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi starlette 1.1.0
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.3 1782352847, 1782352919, 1782353093
  • python-graphifyy openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.9.48-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11572-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-48818 updated cvss 7.5

starlette: Starlette: SSRF and NTLM credential theft via UNC paths in StaticFiles on Windows

  • Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.3 rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9 1782352847, rhaiis/vllm-rocm-rhel9 1782353093, rhaiis/vllm-spyre-rhel9 1782352919
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:30089
  • Red Hat Exploit Intelligence exploit-intelligence-tech-preview/vulnerability-analysis-rhel9 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 mta/mta-solution-server-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-ocp-rag-rhel9, openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-service-api-rhel9 Red Hat AI Inference Server rhaii/vllm-cpu-rhel9, rhaii/vllm-tpu-rhel9, rhaii/vllm-cuda-rhel9, rhaii/vllm-rocm-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-cpu-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-tpu-rhel9, +4 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-26/mcp-tools-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-27/mcp-tools-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-chatbot-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-chatbot-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-27/lightspeed-chatbot-rhel9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gaudi-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-aws-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gcp-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/disk-image-cuda-rhel9, +2 more
    +3 more products
    Red Hat Hardened Images jaeger Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-automl-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mlserver-rhel9, rhoai/odh-vllm-cuda-rhel9, rhoai/odh-vllm-rocm-rhel9, rhoai/odh-caikit-nlp-rhel9, +32 more Red Hat Satellite 6 satellite/iop-vmaas-rhel9, satellite/foreman-mcp-server-rhel9, satellite/iop-advisor-engine-rhel9, satellite/iop-host-inventory-rhel9, satellite/iop-vulnerability-engine-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi starlette
<1.1.0
1.1.0

Affected products

  • Kludex starlette
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.3
  • Red Hat Exploit Intelligence
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8
  • Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed
  • Red Hat Red Hat AI Inference Server
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3
  • Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery

References

Sources

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