Vulnerability advisory

CVE-2025-59682

Published Oct 1, 2025Updated Oct 28, 2026OSV record ↗

Also known as BIT-django-2025-59682GHSA-q95w-c7qg-hrffPYSEC-2026-1296

Severity

CVSS 3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected versions

Repository

Affected commits	Fixed by commit
GIT github.com/django/django ↗
All commits before 57d20b2485e7cd2f029dbf49fb5510b2a6f12c48	`57d20b2485e7cd2f029dbf49fb5510b2a6f12c48`
84d09a547fe35e10018ab242602ca76c29ca91a1 to before 467aeeb569da17a7573e8dfc4932434c84e70642	`467aeeb569da17a7573e8dfc4932434c84e70642`
9e7cc2b628fe8fd3895986af9b7fc9525034c1b0 to before 3cff3209e35a560f94801d428cf7f2a3ecb2a051	`3cff3209e35a560f94801d428cf7f2a3ecb2a051`
Also listed as affected (58) `4.2.24` `5.1.12` `5.2.6` `5.2.5` `5.2.4` `4.2.23` `5.1.11` `5.2.3` `4.2.22` `5.1.10` `5.2.2` `4.2.21` `5.1.9` `5.2.1` `5.2` `5.1.8` `4.2.20` `5.1.7` `5.1.6` `4.2.19` `4.2.18` `5.1.5` `4.2.17` `5.1.4` `5.1.3` `5.1.2` `4.2.16` `5.1.1` `5.1` `4.2.15` `5.1rc1` `4.2.14` `5.1b1` `5.1a1` `4.2.13` `4.2.12` `4.2.11` `4.2.10` `4.2.9` `4.2.8` `4.2.7` `4.2.6` `4.2.5` `4.2.4` `4.2.3` `4.2.2` `4.2.1` `4.2` `4.2rc1` `4.2b1` `4.2a1` `1.7a2` `1.4` `1.3` `1.2.1` `1.2` `1.1` `1.0`

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.

CVE-2025-59682

Affected versions

Repository

Description

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