GHSA-674p-xv2x-rf3g

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-674p-xv2x-rf3g
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/08/GHSA-674p-xv2x-rf3g/GHSA-674p-xv2x-rf3g.json
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Published
2025-08-11T23:07:36Z
Modified
2025-08-11T23:34:07.984502Z
Severity
  • 3.7 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Litestar has potential log injection in exception logging
Details

Summary

Litestar does not escape url paths when logging exceptions. This makes logger vulnerable to CRLF injection if logging level is configured to debug or log_exceptions is set to "always", which allows attackers to inject newlines and forge log entries.

Details

Litestar directly formats unquoted path into exception logs without validation or escaping when using default exception logging handler.

https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/blob/1e0dc7c4d67151c836208a3e360051e983b5083a/litestar/logging/config.py#L145-L150

Attackers can inject newlines in logs by embedding%0d%0a in url path.

log_exceptions="always" is not enabled by default. However, it is set in the examples of documentation (https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/blob/1e0dc7c4d67151c836208a3e360051e983b5083a/docs/usage/logging.rst#logging). User will be impacted if they directly copy the logging config from docs.

PoC

curl "http://172.17.0.2:8000/%29%0D%0AINFO:%20%20%20%20%20127.0.0.1:8192%20-%20%22POST%20/login%20HTTP/1.1%22%20200%20OK%0D%0A%28"

logging:

2025-07-15 00:00:00 - litestar - ERROR - Uncaught exception (connection_type=http, path=/)
INFO:     127.0.0.1:8192 - "POST /login HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
...

If stacktracks for 404 are configured to be ignored (disable_stack_trace={404},), attacker may also exploit this by sending malformed requests to cause 400/500 exceptions and avoid 404 in endpoints with str path parameters.

Database specific 
{
    "severity": "LOW",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-08-11T23:07:36Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-117"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / litestar

Package

Name
litestar
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Purl
pkg:pypi/litestar

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.17.0

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.0a0

2.*

2.0.0a3
2.0.0a4
2.0.0a5
2.0.0a6
2.0.0a7
2.0.0b1
2.0.0b2
2.0.0b3
2.0.0b4
2.0.0rc1
2.0.0
2.0.1
2.1.0
2.1.1
2.2.0
2.2.1
2.3.0
2.3.1
2.3.2
2.4.0
2.4.1
2.4.2
2.4.3
2.4.4
2.4.5
2.5.0
2.5.1
2.5.2
2.5.3
2.5.4
2.5.5
2.6.0
2.6.1
2.6.2
2.6.3
2.6.4
2.7.0
2.7.1
2.7.2
2.8.0
2.8.1
2.8.2
2.8.3
2.9.0
2.9.1
2.10.0
2.11.0
2.12.0
2.12.1
2.13.0
2.14.0
2.15.0
2.15.1
2.15.2
2.16.0

Database specific 

{
    "last_known_affected_version_range": "<= 2.16.0"
}