CVE-2026-25673
Received
Received - Intake
Denial of Service via URL Parsing in Django URLField
Publication date: 2026-03-03
Last updated on: 2026-03-05
Assigner: Django Software Foundation
Description
Description
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.
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| djangoproject | django | From 4.2.0 (inc) to 4.2.29 (exc) |
| djangoproject | django | From 5.2 (inc) to 5.2.12 (exc) |
| djangoproject | django | From 6.0 (inc) to 6.0.3 (exc) |
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-770 | The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated. |
| CWE-400 | The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource. |
