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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-vrcr-9hj9-jcg6)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 436205

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2025-64460)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vrcr-9hj9-jcg6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 436205

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 12/3/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

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-2025-64460

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-64460

cwe: CWE-407