Archive of security issues

Django’s development team is strongly committed to responsible reporting and disclosure of security-related issues, as outlined in Django’s security policies.

As part of that commitment, we maintain the following historical list of issues which have been fixed and disclosed. For each issue, the list below includes the date, a brief description, the CVE identifier if applicable, a list of affected versions, a link to the full disclosure and links to the appropriate patch(es).

Some important caveats apply to this information:

  • Lists of affected versions include only those versions of Django which had stable, security-supported releases at the time of disclosure. This means older versions (whose security support had expired) and versions which were in pre-release (alpha/beta/RC) states at the time of disclosure may have been affected, but are not listed.
  • The Django project has on occasion issued security advisories, pointing out potential security problems which can arise from improper configuration or from other issues outside of Django itself. Some of these advisories have received CVEs; when that is the case, they are listed here, but as they have no accompanying patches or releases, only the description, disclosure and CVE will be listed.

Issues under Django’s security process

All security issues have been handled under versions of Django’s security process. These are listed below.

February 1, 2022 - CVE-2022-22818

Possible XSS via {% debug %} template tag. Full description

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February 1, 2022 - CVE-2022-23833

Denial-of-service possibility in file uploads. Full description

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January 4, 2022 - CVE-2021-45452

Potential directory-traversal via Storage.save(). Full description

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January 4, 2022 - CVE-2021-45116

Potential information disclosure in dictsort template filter. Full description

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January 4, 2022 - CVE-2021-45115

Denial-of-service possibility in UserAttributeSimilarityValidator. Full description

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December 7, 2021 - CVE-2021-44420

Potential bypass of an upstream access control based on URL paths. Full description

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July 1, 2021 - CVE-2021-35042

Potential SQL injection via unsanitized QuerySet.order_by() input. Full description

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June 2, 2021 - CVE-2021-33203

Potential directory traversal via admindocs. Full description

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June 2, 2021 - CVE-2021-33571

Possible indeterminate SSRF, RFI, and LFI attacks since validators accepted leading zeros in IPv4 addresses. Full description

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May 6, 2021 - CVE-2021-32052

Header injection possibility since URLValidator accepted newlines in input on Python 3.9.5+. Full description

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May 4, 2021 - CVE-2021-31542

Potential directory-traversal via uploaded files. Full description

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April 6, 2021 - CVE-2021-28658

Potential directory-traversal via uploaded files. Full description

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February 19, 2021 - CVE-2021-23336

Web cache poisoning via django.utils.http.limited_parse_qsl(). Full description

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February 1, 2021 - CVE-2021-3281

Potential directory-traversal via archive.extract(). Full description

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September 1, 2020 - CVE-2020-24584

Permission escalation in intermediate-level directories of the file system cache on Python 3.7+. Full description

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September 1, 2020 - CVE-2020-24583

Incorrect permissions on intermediate-level directories on Python 3.7+. Full description

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June 3, 2020 - CVE-2020-13596

Possible XSS via admin ForeignKeyRawIdWidget. Full description

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June 3, 2020 - CVE-2020-13254

Potential data leakage via malformed memcached keys. Full description

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March 4, 2020 - CVE-2020-9402

Potential SQL injection via tolerance parameter in GIS functions and aggregates on Oracle. Full description

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February 3, 2020 - CVE-2020-7471

Potential SQL injection via StringAgg(delimiter). Full description

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December 18, 2019 - CVE-2019-19844

Potential account hijack via password reset form. Full description

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December 2, 2019 - CVE-2019-19118

Privilege escalation in the Django admin. Full description

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August 1, 2019 - CVE-2019-14235

Potential memory exhaustion in django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri(). Full description

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August 1, 2019 - CVE-2019-14234

SQL injection possibility in key and index lookups for JSONField/HStoreField. Full description

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August 1, 2019 - CVE-2019-14233

Denial-of-service possibility in strip_tags(). Full description

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August 1, 2019 - CVE-2019-14232

Denial-of-service possibility in django.utils.text.Truncator. Full description

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July 1, 2019 - CVE-2019-12781

Incorrect HTTP detection with reverse-proxy connecting via HTTPS. Full description

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June 3, 2019 - CVE-2019-12308

XSS via “Current URL” link generated by AdminURLFieldWidget. Full description

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June 3, 2019 - CVE-2019-11358

Prototype pollution in bundled jQuery. Full description

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February 11, 2019 - CVE-2019-6975

Memory exhaustion in django.utils.numberformat.format(). Full description

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January 4, 2019 - CVE-2019-3498

Content spoofing possibility in the default 404 page. Full description

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October 1, 2018 - CVE-2018-16984

Password hash disclosure to “view only” admin users. Full description

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August 1, 2018 - CVE-2018-14574

Open redirect possibility in CommonMiddleware. Full description

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March 6, 2018 - CVE-2018-7537

Denial-of-service possibility in truncatechars_html and truncatewords_html template filters. Full description

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March 6, 2018 - CVE-2018-7536

Denial-of-service possibility in urlize and urlizetrunc template filters. Full description

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February 1, 2018 - CVE-2018-6188

Information leakage in AuthenticationForm. Full description

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September 5, 2017 - CVE-2017-12794

Possible XSS in traceback section of technical 500 debug page. Full description

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April 4, 2017 - CVE-2017-7234

Open redirect vulnerability in django.views.static.serve(). Full description

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April 4, 2017 - CVE-2017-7233

Open redirect and possible XSS attack via user-supplied numeric redirect URLs. Full description

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November 1, 2016 - CVE-2016-9014

DNS rebinding vulnerability when DEBUG=True. Full description

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November 1, 2016 - CVE-2016-9013

User with hardcoded password created when running tests on Oracle. Full description

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September 26, 2016 - CVE-2016-7401

CSRF protection bypass on a site with Google Analytics. Full description

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July 18, 2016 - CVE-2016-6186

XSS in admin’s add/change related popup. Full description

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March 1, 2016 - CVE-2016-2513

User enumeration through timing difference on password hasher work factor upgrade. Full description

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March 1, 2016 - CVE-2016-2512

Malicious redirect and possible XSS attack via user-supplied redirect URLs containing basic auth. Full description

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February 1, 2016 - CVE-2016-2048

User with “change” but not “add” permission can create objects for ModelAdmin’s with save_as=True. Full description

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November 24, 2015 - CVE-2015-8213

Settings leak possibility in date template filter. Full description

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August 18, 2015 - CVE-2015-5963 / CVE-2015-5964

Denial-of-service possibility in logout() view by filling session store. Full description

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July 8, 2015 - CVE-2015-5145

Denial-of-service possibility in URL validation. Full description

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July 8, 2015 - CVE-2015-5144

Header injection possibility since validators accept newlines in input. Full description

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July 8, 2015 - CVE-2015-5143

Denial-of-service possibility by filling session store. Full description

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May 20, 2015 - CVE-2015-3982

Fixed session flushing in the cached_db backend. Full description

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March 18, 2015 - CVE-2015-2317

Mitigated possible XSS attack via user-supplied redirect URLs. Full description

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March 18, 2015 - CVE-2015-2316

Denial-of-service possibility with strip_tags(). Full description

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March 9, 2015 - CVE-2015-2241

XSS attack via properties in ModelAdmin.readonly_fields. Full description

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January 13, 2015 - CVE-2015-0222

Database denial-of-service with ModelMultipleChoiceField. Full description

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January 13, 2015 - CVE-2015-0221

Denial-of-service attack against django.views.static.serve(). Full description

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January 13, 2015 - CVE-2015-0220

Mitigated possible XSS attack via user-supplied redirect URLs. Full description

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January 13, 2015 - CVE-2015-0219

WSGI header spoofing via underscore/dash conflation. Full description

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August 20, 2014 - CVE-2014-0483

Data leakage via querystring manipulation in admin. Full description

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August 20, 2014 - CVE-2014-0482

RemoteUserMiddleware session hijacking. Full description

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August 20, 2014 - CVE-2014-0481

File upload denial of service. Full description

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August 20, 2014 - CVE-2014-0480

reverse() can generate URLs pointing to other hosts. Full description

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May 18, 2014 - CVE-2014-3730

Malformed URLs from user input incorrectly validated. Full description

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May 18, 2014 - CVE-2014-1418

Caches may be allowed to store and serve private data. Full description

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April 21, 2014 - CVE-2014-0474

MySQL typecasting causes unexpected query results. Full description

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April 21, 2014 - CVE-2014-0473

Caching of anonymous pages could reveal CSRF token. Full description

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April 21, 2014 - CVE-2014-0472

Unexpected code execution using reverse(). Full description

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September 14, 2013 - CVE-2013-1443

Denial-of-service via large passwords. Full description

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September 10, 2013 - CVE-2013-4315

Directory-traversal via ssi template tag. Full description

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August 13, 2013 - CVE-2013-6044

Possible XSS via unvalidated URL redirect schemes. Full description

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August 13, 2013 - CVE-2013-4249

XSS via admin trusting URLField values. Full description

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February 19, 2013 - CVE-2013-0306

Denial-of-service via formset max_num bypass. Full description

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February 19, 2013 - CVE-2013-0305

Information leakage via admin history log. Full description

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February 19, 2013 - CVE-2013-1664 / CVE-2013-1665

Entity-based attacks against Python XML libraries. Full description

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February 19, 2013 - No CVE

Additional hardening of Host header handling. Full description

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December 10, 2012 - No CVE 2

Additional hardening of redirect validation. Full description

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December 10, 2012 - No CVE 1

Additional hardening of Host header handling. Full description

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October 17, 2012 - CVE-2012-4520

Host header poisoning. Full description

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July 30, 2012 - CVE-2012-3444

Denial-of-service via large image files. Full description

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July 30, 2012 - CVE-2012-3443

Denial-of-service via compressed image files. Full description

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July 30, 2012 - CVE-2012-3442

XSS via failure to validate redirect scheme. Full description

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September 9, 2011 - CVE-2011-4140

Potential CSRF via Host header. Full description

Versions affected

This notification was an advisory only, so no patches were issued.

  • Django 1.2
  • Django 1.3

September 9, 2011 - CVE-2011-4139

Host header cache poisoning. Full description

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September 9, 2011 - CVE-2011-4138

Information leakage/arbitrary request issuance via URLField.verify_exists. Full description

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September 9, 2011 - CVE-2011-4137

Denial-of-service via URLField.verify_exists. Full description

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September 9, 2011 - CVE-2011-4136

Session manipulation when using memory-cache-backed session. Full description

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February 8, 2011 - CVE-2011-0698

Directory-traversal on Windows via incorrect path-separator handling. Full description

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February 8, 2011 - CVE-2011-0697

XSS via unsanitized names of uploaded files. Full description

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February 8, 2011 - CVE-2011-0696

CSRF via forged HTTP headers. Full description

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December 22, 2010 - CVE-2010-4535

Denial-of-service in password-reset mechanism. Full description

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December 22, 2010 - CVE-2010-4534

Information leakage in administrative interface. Full description

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September 8, 2010 - CVE-2010-3082

XSS via trusting unsafe cookie value. Full description

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October 9, 2009 - CVE-2009-3965

Denial-of-service via pathological regular expression performance. Full description

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July 28, 2009 - CVE-2009-2659

Directory-traversal in development server media handler. Full description

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September 2, 2008 - CVE-2008-3909

CSRF via preservation of POST data during admin login. Full description

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May 14, 2008 - CVE-2008-2302

XSS via admin login redirect. Full description

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October 26, 2007 - CVE-2007-5712

Denial-of-service via arbitrarily-large Accept-Language header. Full description

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Issues prior to Django’s security process

Some security issues were handled before Django had a formalized security process in use. For these, new releases may not have been issued at the time and CVEs may not have been assigned.

January 21, 2007 - CVE-2007-0405

Apparent “caching” of authenticated user. Full description

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August 16, 2006 - CVE-2007-0404

Filename validation issue in translation framework. Full description

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