Django 5.2.13 release notes#
April 7, 2026
Django 5.2.13 fixes one security issue with severity “moderate” and four security issues with severity “low” in 5.2.12.
CVE-2026-3902: ASGI header spoofing via underscore/hyphen conflation#
ASGIRequest normalizes header names following WSGI conventions, mapping
hyphens to underscores. As a result, even in configurations where reverse
proxies carefully strip security-sensitive headers named with hyphens, such a
header could be spoofed by supplying a header named with underscores.
Under WSGI, it is the responsibility of the server or proxy to avoid ambiguous
mappings. (Django’s runserver was patched in CVE 2015-0219.) But
under ASGI, there is not the same uniform expectation, even if many proxies
protect against this under default configuration (including nginx via
underscores_in_headers off;).
Headers containing underscores are now ignored by ASGIRequest, matching the
behavior of Daphne, the reference server for ASGI.
This issue has severity “low” according to the Django security policy.
CVE-2026-4277: Privilege abuse in GenericInlineModelAdmin#
Add permissions on inline model instances were not validated on submission of
forged POST data in
GenericInlineModelAdmin.
This issue has severity “low” according to the Django security policy.
CVE-2026-4292: Privilege abuse in ModelAdmin.list_editable#
Admin changelist forms using
list_editable incorrectly allowed new
instances to be created via forged POST data.
This issue has severity “low” according to the Django security policy.
CVE-2026-33033: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in MultiPartParser via base64-encoded file upload#
When using django.http.multipartparser.MultiPartParser, multipart uploads
with Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 that include excessive whitespace
may trigger repeated memory copying, potentially degrading performance.
This issue has severity “moderate” according to the Django security policy.
CVE-2026-33034: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in ASGI requests via memory upload limit bypass#
ASGI requests with a missing or understated Content-Length header could
bypass the DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE limit when reading
HttpRequest.body, potentially loading an unbounded request body into
memory and causing service degradation.
This issue has severity “low” according to the Django security policy.