CVE-2026-53878 PUBLISHED

Header injection possibility since DomainNameValidator accepted newlines in input

Assigner: DSF
Reserved: 11.06.2026 Published: 07.07.2026 Updated: 07.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor djangoproject
Product Django
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6.0 to 6.0.7 (excl.)
  • Version 6.0.7 is unaffected
  • affected from 5.2 to 5.2.16 (excl.)
  • Version 5.2.16 is unaffected

Credits

  • Bence Nagy reporter
  • Natalia Bidart remediation developer
  • Jacob Walls coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-144: Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-34: HTTP Response Splitting