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CVE-2025-54365VulnerabilityPublished

CVE-2025-54365: rennf93 fastapi-guard · Improper Input Validation

Affects rennf93 fastapi-guardSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.8 High · fixed in 3.0.2 : patch rennf93 fastapi-guard soon.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
7.8High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 58% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 3.0.2
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 23 Jul 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
PyPIfastapi-guardpkg:pypi/fastapi-guardOther threatsAffected
  • =3.0.1
Fixed in–

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AI-suggested

European organizations should immediately upgrade fastapi-guard to version 3.0.2 or later, where the vulnerability is fixed. Until upgrade is possible, organizations should implement additional input validation and sanitization at the application level, specifically targeting long attribute strings in HTML tags such as <script>. Employing Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) with custom rules to detect and block unusually long or suspicious input patterns can provide a temporary defense. Monitoring and logging should be enhanced to detect anomalous request patterns indicative of exploitation attempts. Security teams should conduct code reviews and penetration testing focused on input validation bypass scenarios. Furthermore, organizations should ensure that their incident response plans include procedures for handling potential exploitation of this vulnerability. Finally, developers should be educated about the limitations of regex-based input validation and encouraged to adopt defense-in-depth strategies.

Description

fastapi-guard is a security library for FastAPI that provides middleware to control IPs, log requests, detect penetration attempts and more. In version 3.0.1, the regular expression patched to mitigate the ReDoS vulnerability by limiting the length of string fails to catch inputs that exceed this limit. This type of patch fails to detect cases in which the string representing the attributes of a <script> tag exceeds 100 characters. As a result, most of the regex patterns present in version 3.0.1 can be bypassed. This is fixed in version 3.0.2.

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