MEDIUM 5.3 PyPI
Django has an Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
GHSA-w26r-rmm8-9c29 · BIT-django-2026-5766 · CVE-2026-5766 · PYSEC-2026-54
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Description
An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.5 and 5.2 before 5.2.14. ASGI requests with a missing or understated Content-Length header can bypass the FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE limit, potentially loading large files into memory and causing service degradation.
As a reminder, Django expects a limit to be configured at the web server level rather than solely relying on FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. 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 thanks Kyle Agronick for reporting this issue.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5766
- WEB https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
- PACKAGE https://github.com/django/django
- WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2026-54.yaml
- WEB https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
- WEB https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/may/05/security-releases
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