GHSA-2mcm-79hx-8fxwLow
Django has Observable Timing Discrepancy
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.2, 5.2 before 5.2.11, and 4.2 before 4.2.28.
The django.contrib.auth.handlers.modwsgi.check_password() function for authentication via mod_wsgi allows remote attackers to enumerate users via a timing attack. 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 Stackered for reporting this issue.
🎯 Affected products3
- pip/Django:>= 6.0a1, < 6.0.2
- pip/Django:>= 5.2a1, < 5.2.11
- pip/Django:>= 4.2a1, < 4.2.28
🔗 References (6)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13473
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/feb/03/security-releases
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2026-42.yaml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2mcm-79hx-8fxw