MEDIUM 6.9 NVD
CVE-2026-84429
An issue was discovered in Django 6.1 before 6.1.2, 6.0 before 6.0.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.18. `django.utils.http.parse_header_parameters()` was subject to a pote
An issue was discovered in Django 6.1 before 6.1.2, 6.0 before 6.0.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.18.
`django.utils.http.parse_header_parameters()` was subject to a potential denial-of-service attack due to quadratic time complexity when parsing a value with many separators inside a quoted parameter. An unauthenticated request could reach this parsing through headers such as `Accept` or `Content-Type`, for instance via the content negotiation performed by `HttpRequest.accepts()`. The per-call length limit does not bound the combined size of repeated headers.
Earlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.1.x, 5.0.x, and 4.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected.
Django would like to thank Jisung Chae for reporting this issue.
References
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/3d8f121695c21234aff3071de0d38b6bd38c3f52
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/6ecd66e09a383be004a78a3a738ea9727ff07b0e
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/7ff7fcc0508864a4bc39693128ace38b1e95a890
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/de56deeabd4c48dfb5193f0001469d80102fb367
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.9 was published on 2026-10-06 via NVD.
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