VYPR
High severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 3, 2026· Updated Mar 3, 2026

Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in URLField via Unicode normalization on Windows

CVE-2026-25673

Description

An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.3, 5.2 before 5.2.12, and 4.2 before 4.2.29. URLField.to_python() in Django calls urllib.parse.urlsplit(), which performs NFKC normalization on Windows that is disproportionately slow for certain Unicode characters, allowing a remote attacker to cause denial of service via large URL inputs containing these characters. 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 Seokchan Yoon for reporting this issue.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
DjangoPyPI
>= 6.0, < 6.0.36.0.3
DjangoPyPI
>= 5.2, < 5.2.125.2.12
DjangoPyPI
>= 4.2, < 4.2.294.2.29

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