PYSEC-2026-801
Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-07-06 08:03 - Updated: 2026-07-07 11:30
VLAI
Details
The XML libraries for Python, as used in OpenStack Keystone Essex, Folsom, and Grizzly; Compute (Nova) Essex and Folsom; Cinder Folsom; Django; and possibly other products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Impacted products
| Name | purl | django | pkg:pypi/django |
|---|
Aliases
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "PyPI",
"name": "django",
"purl": "pkg:pypi/django"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "1.3.0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.3.6"
},
{
"introduced": "1.4.0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.4.4"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"1.3",
"1.3.1",
"1.3.2",
"1.3.3",
"1.3.4",
"1.3.5",
"1.4",
"1.4.1",
"1.4.2",
"1.4.3"
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2013-1664",
"GHSA-qrh7-x6fp-c2mp"
],
"details": "The XML libraries for Python, as used in OpenStack Keystone Essex, Folsom, and Grizzly; Compute (Nova) Essex and Folsom; Cinder Folsom; Django; and possibly other products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.",
"id": "PYSEC-2026-801",
"modified": "2026-07-07T11:30:32.314316Z",
"published": "2026-07-06T08:03:27.156164Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1664"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/django/django/commit/1c60d07ba23e0350351c278ad28d0bd5aa410b40"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/django/django/commit/d19a27066b2247102e65412aa66917aff0091112"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1100282"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/django/django"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://blog.python.org/2013/02/announcing-defusedxml-fixes-for-xml.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://bugs.python.org/issue17239"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-February/000078.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0657.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0658.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0670.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1757-1"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/2"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/4"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://pypi.org/project/django"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qrh7-x6fp-c2mp"
}
],
"summary": "XML Entity Expansion (XEE) in Django"
}
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