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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-8p8v-wh79-9r56)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 438355

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.3, 5.2 before 5.2.12, and 4.2 before 4.2.29.
 `URLField.to_python()` in Django calls `urllib.parse.urlsplit()`, which performs NFKC normalization on
 Windows that is disproportionately slow for certain Unicode characters, allowing a remote attacker to
 cause denial of service via large URL inputs containing these characters. 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. (CVE-2026-25673)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8p8v-wh79-9r56

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 438355

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/5/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

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-2026-25673

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: 3/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-25673