Advisory record · GHSA-3h9f-r86x-qvjx

Django: cache middleware may expose private responses when unrelated request cookies are present

CVSS 2.3 LowEPSS 0.0043 · 37th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 7 Jul 2026, 15:32 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
djangoPyPI<5.2.16 || >=6.0.0, <6.0.75.2.16, 6.0.7
Identifiers
GHSA-3h9f-r86x-qvjx · BIT-django-2026-48588 · CVE-2026-48588 · PYSEC-2026-2090
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-524
Published
7 Jul 2026
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Django versions 5.2 before 5.2.16 and 6.0 before 6.0.7 are vulnerable. When a request carries unrelated cookies, the cache middleware and the cache_page() decorator can store responses that vary on cookies, so a remote attacker may read private data from the shared cache. Upgrade to Django 5.2.16 or 6.0.7. Earlier unsupported series were not evaluated and may also be affected.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
2.3 Low 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (DSF)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0043, the 37th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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