Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach the servers running them and make off with sensitive data and ...
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Worrying open-source security issue 'BadHost' could affect millions of AI agents, experts warn

Secwest discloses CVE‑2026‑48710 (“BadHost”), a high‑severity flaw in Starlette that lets attackers abuse malformed Host headers to bypass security checks and exfiltrate sensitive data Starlette ...
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A vulnerability in the open-source package 'Starlette,' which is downloaded more than 300 million times a week, has put millions of AI agents at risk.

Security researcher Markus Vervier warns that Starlette, an open-source framework used by millions of AI agents and tools worldwide, has a critical vulnerability. Millions of AI agents imperiled by ...
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FastAPI-based AI tools exposed to authentication bypass by flaw in Starlette framework

Researchers who found the bug warn that its Moderate rating understates a threat reaching across LLM gateways, MCP servers and agent infrastructure. A single malformed character in a web request can ...
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Worrying open-source security issue 'BadHost' could affect millions of AI agents

Secwest discloses CVE‑2026‑48710 (“BadHost”), a high‑severity flaw in Starlette that lets attackers abuse malformed Host headers to bypass security checks and exfiltrate sensitive data Starlette ...