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GHSA-W26R-RMM8-9C29

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-05 18:33 – Updated: 2026-05-08 22:14

Summary

Django has an Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

Details

An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.5 and 5.2 before 5.2.14. ASGI requests with a missing or understated Content-Length header can bypass the FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE limit, potentially loading large files into memory and causing service degradation.

As a reminder, Django expects a limit to be configured at the web server level rather than solely relying on FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. 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 thanks Kyle Agronick for reporting this issue.

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

6.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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  "id": "GHSA-w26r-rmm8-9c29",
  "modified": "2026-05-08T22:14:39Z",
  "published": "2026-05-05T18:33:26Z",
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5766"
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}

CVE-2026-5766 (GCVE-0-2026-5766)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-05 14:49 – Updated: 2026-05-06 15:25

Title

Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in ASGI requests via file upload limit bypass

Summary

An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.5 and 5.2 before 5.2.14. ASGI requests with a missing or understated `Content-Length` header can bypass the `FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE` limit, potentially loading large files into memory and causing service degradation. As a reminder, Django expects a limit to be configured at the web server level rather than solely relying on `FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE`. 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 Kyle Agronick for reporting this issue.

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

6.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-130 - Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

Assigner

DSF

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/se…	vendor-advisory
https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce	mailing-list
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/may/05/…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
djangoproject	Django	Affected: 6.0 , < 6.0.5 (python) Unaffected: 6.0.5 (python) Affected: 5.2 , < 5.2.14 (python) Unaffected: 5.2.14 (python)

Date Public ?

2026-05-05 09:00

Credits

Kyle Agronick Jacob Walls Sarah Boyce

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Sightings

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GHSA-W26R-RMM8-9C29

CVE-2026-5766 (GCVE-0-2026-5766)

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