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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-04-16 23:38

Modified

2026-04-17 00:10

Summary

Privilege abuse in GenericInlineModelAdmin

Details

An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.4, 5.2 before 5.2.13, and 4.2 before 4.2.30. Add permissions on inline model instances were not validated on submission of forged POST data in GenericInlineModelAdmin. 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 N05ec@LZU-DSLab for reporting this issue.

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    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "django",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/django"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "4.2.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.2.30"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "5.2.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "5.2.13"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "6.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "6.0.4"
            }
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          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
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      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-4277"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Critical"
  },
  "details": "An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.4, 5.2 before 5.2.13, and 4.2 before 4.2.30.\nAdd permissions on inline model instances were not validated on submission of\r\nforged `POST` data in `GenericInlineModelAdmin`.\nEarlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected.\nDjango would like to thank N05ec@LZU-DSLab for reporting this issue.",
  "id": "BIT-django-2026-4277",
  "modified": "2026-04-17T00:10:47.507Z",
  "published": "2026-04-16T23:38:49.720Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4277"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/apr/07/security-releases/"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Privilege abuse in GenericInlineModelAdmin"
}

CVE-2026-4277 (GCVE-0-2026-4277)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-07 14:22 – Updated: 2026-04-09 20:21

Title

Privilege abuse in GenericInlineModelAdmin

Summary

An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.4, 5.2 before 5.2.13, and 4.2 before 4.2.30. Add permissions on inline model instances were not validated on submission of forged `POST` data in `GenericInlineModelAdmin`. 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 N05ec@LZU-DSLab for reporting this issue.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Assigner

DSF

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/apr/07/…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	djangoproject	Django	Affected: 6.0 , < 6.0.4 (semver) Unaffected: 6.0.4 (semver) Affected: 5.2 , < 5.2.13 (semver) Unaffected: 5.2.13 (semver) Affected: 4.2 , < 4.2.30 (semver) Unaffected: 4.2.30 (semver)

Date Public ?

2026-04-07 09:00

Credits

N05ec@LZU-DSLab Jacob Walls Jacob Walls

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2026-4277 (GCVE-0-2026-4277)

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