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.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-82w8-qh3p-5jfq Starlette: request.form() limits silently ignored for application/x-www-form-urlencoded enable DoS
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Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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.
Title Starlette: request.form() limits silently ignored for application/x-www-form-urlencoded enable DoS
Weaknesses CWE-770
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-23T16:10:51.227Z

Reserved: 2026-06-12T17:46:37.292Z

Link: CVE-2026-54283

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Updated: 2026-06-23T16:06:34.955Z

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cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-06-22T16:46:16Z

Links: CVE-2026-54283 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2026-06-22T20:15:04Z

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