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GHSA-vrcr-9hj9-jcg6

Django is vulnerable to DoS via XML serializer text extraction

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2025-64460

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI Django >= 5.2a1, < 5.2.9 5.2.9
PyPI Django >= 5.1a1, < 5.1.15 5.1.15
PyPI Django >= 4.2a1, < 4.2.27 4.2.27

Details

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An issue was discovered in 5.2 before 5.2.9, 5.1 before 5.1.15, and 4.2 before 4.2.27. Algorithmic complexity in `django.core.serializers.xml_serializer.getInnerText()` allows a remote attacker to cause a potential denial-of-service attack triggering CPU and memory exhaustion via specially crafted XML input processed by the XML `Deserializer`. Earlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected. Django would like to thank Seokchan Yoon for reporting this issue.

References

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