Vulnerability advisory

PYSEC-2025-14

Published Updated OSV record ↗

Also known as BIT-django-2025-27556CVE-2025-27556GHSA-wqfg-m96j-85vm

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.1 before 5.1.8 and 5.0 before 5.0.14. The NFKC normalization is slow on Windows. As a consequence, django.contrib.auth.views.LoginView, django.contrib.auth.views.LogoutView, and django.views.i18n.set_language are subject to a potential denial-of-service attack via certain inputs with a very large number of Unicode characters.

References

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