PYSEC-2026-1296
Django vulnerable to partial directory traversal via archives
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2025-59682
- Aliases
- BIT-django-2025-59682, GHSA-q95w-c7qg-hrff
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Description
An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.25, 5.1 before 5.1.13, and 5.2 before 5.2.7. The django.utils.archive.extract() function, used by the "startapp --template" and "startproject --template" commands, allows partial directory traversal via an archive with file paths sharing a common prefix with the target directory.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| PyPI · django | introduced 4.2, fixed 4.2.25, introduced 5.1, fixed 5.1.13, introduced 5.2, fixed 5.2.7 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59682 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/43d84aef04a9e71164c21a74885996981857e66e WEB
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/924a0c092e65fa2d0953fd1855d2dc8786d94de2 WEB
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security WEB
- https://github.com/django/django PACKAGE
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce WEB
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/oct/01/security-releases WEB
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/01/3 WEB
- https://pypi.org/project/django PACKAGE
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q95w-c7qg-hrff ADVISORY
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database |