GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-q238-5cxm-5c9h Django GeoDjango vulnerable to denial of service through deeply nested geometry collections

MEDIUM Published 2026-08-04 Modified 2026-10-12 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-15830
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
django
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-674
Reviewed
2026-09-30

Affected packages

• PyPI django: < 5.2.17 → fixed in 5.2.17 • PyPI django: >= 6.0a1, < 6.0.8 → fixed in 6.0.8 • PyPI django: >= 6.1a1, < 6.1.1 → fixed in 6.1.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 6.0 before 6.0.8. GeoDjango's `django.contrib.gis.geos.GEOSGeometry` is subject to a potential denial-of-service when parsing deeply nested `GEOMETRYCOLLECTION` objects supplied as well-known text (WKT), well-known binary (WKB), or hex-encoded WKB, which triggers unbounded recursion and a segmentation fault in the underlying GEOS library. Spatial field lookups and the `django.contrib.gis.forms.GeometryField` form field are also affected. Earlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.1.x, 5.0.x, and 4.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected. Django would like to thank Andrew MacPherson and kimchunbok_ for reporting this issue.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-15830 An issue was discovered in Django 6.0 before 6.0.9 and 5.2 before 5.2.18. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

References