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SCA: security update for Django (GHSA-5mf9-h53q-7mhq)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 440083

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. `MultiPartParser`
 allows remote attackers to degrade performance by submitting multipart uploads with `Content-Transfer-
 Encoding: base64` including excessive whitespace. 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-2026-33033)

Solution

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

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5mf9-h53q-7mhq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 440083

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: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33033

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 4/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33033

cwe: CWE-407