GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-q95w-c7qg-hrff Django vulnerable to partial directory traversal via archives
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-59682
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- django
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-23
- Reviewed
- 2025-10-01
Affected packages
• PyPI django: >= 4.2, < 4.2.25 → fixed in 4.2.25
• PyPI django: >= 5.1, < 5.1.13 → fixed in 5.1.13
• PyPI django: >= 5.2, < 5.2.7 → fixed in 5.2.7
Description
An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.25, 5.1 before 5.1.13, and 5.2 before 5.2.7. The django.utils.archive.extract() function, used by the "startapp --template" and "startproject --template" commands, allows partial directory traversal via an archive with file paths sharing a common prefix with the target directory.
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-59682 An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.25, 5.1 before 5.1.13, and 5.2 before 5.2.7. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59682 advisory
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/43d84aef04a9e71164c21a74885996981857e66e web
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/924a0c092e65fa2d0953fd1855d2dc8786d94de2 web
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security web
- https://github.com/django/django package
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce web
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/oct/01/security-releases web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/01/3 web