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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-wqfg-m96j-85vm)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423640

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.8 and 5.0 before 5.0.14. The NFKC normalization is slow
 on Windows. As a consequence, django.contrib.auth.views.LoginView, django.contrib.auth.views.LogoutView,
 and django.views.i18n.set_language are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs
 with a very large number of Unicode characters. (CVE-2025-27556)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wqfg-m96j-85vm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423640

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/3/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.86

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27556

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-27556

cwe: CWE-770