GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-8qcx-xf44-272x Django: DomainNameValidator permits newline characters that may enable HTTP header injection

MEDIUM Published 2026-07-07 Modified 2026-08-07 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-53878
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
django
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-144
Reviewed
2026-08-07

Affected packages

• PyPI django: < 5.2.16 → fixed in 5.2.16 • PyPI django: >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.7 → fixed in 6.0.7

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 6.0 before 6.0.7 and 5.2 before 5.2.16. `DomainNameValidator` does not prohibit newlines in domain names (unless used via a form field, since `CharField` strips newlines). If an application uses values with newlines in an HTTP response, header injection can occur. Django itself is unaffected because `HttpResponse` prohibits newlines in HTTP headers. 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 Bence Nagy for reporting this issue.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-53878 An issue was discovered in Django 6.0 before 6.0.7 and 5.2 before 5.2.16. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-144 Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters weakness

References