CVE-2026-25673Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in URLField via Unicode normalization on Windows
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.84%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 42% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.3, 5.2 before 5.2.12, and 4.2 before 4.2.29. `URLField.to_python()` in Django calls `urllib.parse.urlsplit()`, which performs NFKC normalization on Windows that is disproportionately slow for certain Unicode characters, allowing a remote attacker to cause denial of service via large URL inputs containing these characters. 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 Seokchan Yoon for reporting this issue.
Timeline
ID reserved
By DSF
- 27 days later
· 27 days later
Published
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| redhat-SADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.84% · top 42% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
- affected 6.0 – < 6.0.3
- unaffected 6.0.3
- affected 5.2 – < 5.2.12
- unaffected 5.2.12
- affected 4.2 – < 4.2.29
- unaffected 4.2.29
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIDjangoGHSA-8p8v-wh79-9r56 (opens in a new tab)
References
References6
- Django security archive (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- Django releases announcements (opens in a new tab)mailing-list
- Django security releases issued: 6.0.3, 5.2.12, and 4.2.29 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-25673 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2444115 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-25673.json (opens in a new tab)x_sadp-csaf-vex
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-9294 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8p8v-wh79-9r56 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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