CVE-2026-54553
Starlette-Admin: Unvalidated `order_by` parameter allows ordering by hidden columns (info-exposure oracle) and HTTP 500 DoS
- 5.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.45%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Starlette-Admin is a fast, beautiful and extensible administrative interface framework for FastAPI and Starlette applications. Prior to 0.16.1, the list API does not validate user-supplied order_by and structured where field names against the configured sortable_fields and searchable_fields allowlists. An authenticated user with access to an affected list endpoint can submit arbitrary field names to starlette_admin/base.py and the BaseModelView validation path, bypassing restrictions presented by the administrative user interface. Requests can sort or filter on fields that are not intended to be sortable or searchable, causing limited information exposure. Invalid field names and special Python attribute names such as metadata and the class dunder attribute can also trigger unhandled exceptions and HTTP 500 responses, causing limited denial of service for targeted requests. This issue is fixed in version 0.16.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Affected products
- affected < 0.16.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIstarlette-adminGHSA-6753-gr46-6wpr (opens in a new tab)
References
References7
- https://github.com/jowilf/starlette-admin/security/advisories/GHSA-6753-gr46-6wpr (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/jowilf/starlette-admin/pull/776 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/jowilf/starlette-admin/commit/3d9639d12ffc30b0b92d45ad6aae5fefabc948f3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/jowilf/starlette-admin/commit/57a1a76d45dfed16f580677303c5fd25220bd36b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/jowilf/starlette-admin/commit/af05b45cd90944b726949fd650ab9d19f1abafc3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/jowilf/starlette-admin/commit/d2a25ebbaf213d4c2cfc87187e34309ca6e30a51 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/jowilf/starlette-admin/releases/tag/0.16.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-66559 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6753-gr46-6wpr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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