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CVE-2025-62727VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Mcp proxy: Starlette vulnerable to O(n^2) DoS via Range header merging in ``starlette.responses.FileResponse``

Affects mcp-proxySource GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-62727· High 7.5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High : upgrade to 0.10.0_1 soon.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026, 07:12 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.5High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 0.10.0_1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 28 Oct 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: 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 3 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade mcp-proxy to 0.10.0_1.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Homebrewmcp-proxypkg:brew/mcp-proxyOther threatsAffected
  • >=0.8.2 <0.10.0_1
Fixed in
  • 0.10.0_1

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AI-suggested

A fix is available in Starlette version 0.10.0_1. Users should upgrade to this version or later to remediate the vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are required if the application is updated. If upgrading is not immediately possible, consider disabling or restricting use of Range headers on file-serving endpoints as a temporary measure.

Description

Starlette's FileResponse component contains a vulnerability in its HTTP Range header parsing logic that leads to quadratic-time complexity. An unauthenticated attacker can craft a Range header with many small, disjoint ranges to cause CPU exhaustion per request, resulting in denial-of-service (DoS) conditions for endpoints serving files. This affects any Starlette application using FileResponse or StaticFiles, as well as frameworks built on Starlette such as FastAPI when serving files. The vulnerability is fixed in Starlette version 0.10.0_1.

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