django/django · Security
Django vulnerable to partial directory traversal via archives
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-q95w-c7qg-hrff
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-59682
- Severity
- low
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 3.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 3.1 · 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.
CWEs
- CWE-23 · Relative Path Traversal
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59682 ↗
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security ↗
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce ↗
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/oct/01/security-releases ↗
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/43d84aef04a9e71164c21a74885996981857e66e ↗
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/924a0c092e65fa2d0953fd1855d2dc8786d94de2 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/01/3 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q95w-c7qg-hrff ↗