SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-mvfq-ggxm-9mc5)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 440078

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.4, 5.2 before 5.2.13, and 4.2 before 4.2.30. `ASGIRequest`
allows a remote attacker to spoof headers by exploiting an ambiguous mapping of two header variants (with
hyphens or with underscores) to a single version with underscores. 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
Tarek Nakkouch for reporting this issue. (CVE-2026-3902)

Solution

Update the Django library and its related packages to version 4.2.30 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mvfq-ggxm-9mc5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 440078

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/8/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

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:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-3902

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:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-3902

cwe: CWE-290