CVE-2026-53878 (GCVE-0-2026-53878)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-07 14:10 – Updated: 2026-07-07 14:58
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Header injection possibility since DomainNameValidator accepted newlines in input
Summary
An issue was discovered in Django 6.0 before 6.0.7 and 5.2 before 5.2.16.
`DomainNameValidator` does not prohibit newlines in domain names (unless used via a form field, since `CharField` strips newlines). If an application uses values with newlines in an HTTP response, header injection can occur. Django itself is unaffected because `HttpResponse` prohibits newlines in HTTP headers.
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 Bence Nagy for reporting this issue.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-144 - Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters
Assigner
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/jul/07/… | vendor-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| djangoproject | Django |
Affected:
6.0 , < 6.0.7
(python)
Unaffected: 6.0.7 (python) Affected: 5.2 , < 5.2.16 (python) Unaffected: 5.2.16 (python) |
Date Public
2026-07-07 09:00
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