GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-qw25-v68c-qjf3 Django has a denial-of-service vulnerability in HttpResponseRedirect and HttpResponsePermanentRedirect on Windows
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-64458
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- django
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-407
- Reviewed
- 2025-11-05
Affected packages
• PyPI django: >= 5.2a1, < 5.2.8 → fixed in 5.2.8
• PyPI django: >= 5.0a1, < 5.1.14 → fixed in 5.1.14
• PyPI django: < 4.2.26 → fixed in 4.2.26
Description
An issue was discovered in 5.1 before 5.1.14, 4.2 before 4.2.26, and 5.2 before 5.2.8.
NFKC normalization in Python is slow on Windows. As a consequence, `django.http.HttpResponseRedirect`, `django.http.HttpResponsePermanentRedirect`, and the shortcut `django.shortcuts.redirect` were subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode 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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-64458 An issue was discovered in 5.1 before 5.1.14, 4.2 before 4.2.26, and 5.2 before 5.2.8. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64458 advisory
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/3790593781d26168e7306b5b2f8ea0309de16242 web
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/4f5d904b63751dea9ffc3b0e046404a7fa5881ac web
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/6e13348436fccf8f22982921d6a3a3e65c956a9f web
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/770eea38d7a0e9ba9455140b5a9a9e33618226a7 web
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security web
- https://github.com/django/django package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2025-107.yaml web
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce web
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/05/security-releases web