CVE-2026-8404

MEDIUMNVD 5.33.1▼
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 3.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-06-03. NVD baseline CVSS 5.3; sources differ by 2.2.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
5.3
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 5.3Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.15 and 6.0 before 6.0.6. django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware in Django does not match Cache-Control response directives case-insensitively, which allows remote attackers to read responses that were incorrectly cached because their Cache-Control directives used uppercase or mixed-case values. 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 Ahmed Badawe for reporting this issue.

CVSS v3
5.3
EG Score
3.1(medium)
EG Risk
—
EPSS
20.6%
KEV
Not listed

Published

June 3, 2026

Last Modified

July 21, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Jun 14, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Django security releases issued: 6.0.6 and 5.2.15 | Weblog | Django

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/jun/03/security-releases/
generic
https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
generic

Archive of security issues | Django documentation | Django

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-8404(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
django5.2 ... 6.0.5 (21 versions)6.0.6—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 5× in last 7d / 39× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-07-20 17:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-07-19 14:31 UTCEPSS rescore
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  8. 2026-07-14 13:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-07-13 22:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-07-13 06:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-07-11 12:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-07-08 16:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-07-08 15:16 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-07-02 05:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-07-01 15:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-06-29 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-06-29 10:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-06-26 15:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-06-25 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
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  13. 2026-06-23 21:33 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-06-23 19:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-06-22 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-06-21 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-06-21 01:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-06-20 12:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-06-19 19:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-06-18 17:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-06-17 17:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-06-17 09:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-06-16 17:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-06-15 17:49 UTCEPSS rescore
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  26. 2026-06-14 23:18 UTCEPSS rescore
  27. 2026-06-14 15:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-06-13 23:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  29. 2026-06-12 23:12 UTCEPSS rescore
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  31. 2026-06-11 20:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-06-11 14:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  33. 2026-06-10 22:19 UTCEPSS rescore
  34. 2026-06-10 13:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  35. 2026-06-09 02:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-06-08 23:31 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.3 · severity → MEDIUM
  37. 2026-06-08 14:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  38. 2026-06-07 15:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  39. 2026-06-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  40. 2026-06-06 08:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-06-05 22:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  42. 2026-06-05 06:10 UTCEPSS rescore
  43. 2026-06-03 14:10 UTCEG score recompute

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-8404?
CVE-2026-8404 is a medium vulnerability published on June 3, 2026. An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.15 and 6.0 before 6.0.6. django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware in Django does not match Cache-Control response directives case-insensitively, which allows remote attackers to read responses that were incorrectly cached because their…
When was CVE-2026-8404 disclosed?
CVE-2026-8404 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 3, 2026, with the most recent update on July 21, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-8404 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-8404 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 20.6% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-8404?
CVE-2026-8404 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 3.1.
How do I remediate CVE-2026-8404?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-8404, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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