Litestar has potential log injection in exception logging
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub.
Summary
### 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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | litestar (PyPI) | before 2.17.0 | 2.17.0 | Patch available | GHSA-674p-xv2x-rf3g |
- litestar (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 2.17.0 Fixed in 2.17.0 Patch available GHSA-674p-xv2x-rf3g
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-674p-xv2x-rf3g litestar (PyPI) Fixed in 2.17.0 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-674p-xv2x-rf3g
References
Sources
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