{"id":"CVE-2026-77050","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-77050","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:00:51.576Z","title":"An issue was discovered in Django 6.1 before 6.1.2, 6.0 before 6.0.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.18. `django.utils.translation.get_supported_language_variant()` is subject to a potential denial-of-service attack when processing many distinct, very long language…","description":"An issue was discovered in Django 6.1 before 6.1.2, 6.0 before 6.0.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.18.\n`django.utils.translation.get_supported_language_variant()` is subject to\r\na potential denial-of-service attack when processing many distinct, very long\r\nlanguage codes, which are retained as keys in an in-memory cache and\r\nconsume process memory.\nEarlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.1.x, 5.0.x, and 4.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected.\nDjango would like to thank Gleb Lizunov for reporting this issue.","published":"2026-10-06T14:17:46.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-06T15:17:19.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"6a34fbeb-21d4-45e7-8e0a-62b95bc12c92","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":6.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-789"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00483,"percentile":0.41341,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-07","score":0.00381,"percentile":0.29984}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.48%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-06T14:17:46.000Z","detail":{"score":"6.9","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-10-06T14:17:46.017Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 6.9)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/","source":"6a34fbeb-21d4-45e7-8e0a-62b95bc12c92"},{"url":"https://github.com/django/django/commit/02a69e3791e3df23d45ea4ea7e7fc489f0eef2be","source":"6a34fbeb-21d4-45e7-8e0a-62b95bc12c92"},{"url":"https://github.com/django/django/commit/3d32ee80ae52745d686bf94d3555000ddf073267","source":"6a34fbeb-21d4-45e7-8e0a-62b95bc12c92"},{"url":"https://github.com/django/django/commit/7e878b0f8bd42260903e6a0d38996a93b0474a0b","source":"6a34fbeb-21d4-45e7-8e0a-62b95bc12c92"},{"url":"https://github.com/django/django/commit/c88b304cc2d90fc37d3bd1f5f3829706fa6c13bc","source":"6a34fbeb-21d4-45e7-8e0a-62b95bc12c92"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce","source":"6a34fbeb-21d4-45e7-8e0a-62b95bc12c92"},{"url":"https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/oct/06/security-releases/","source":"6a34fbeb-21d4-45e7-8e0a-62b95bc12c92"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77050","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}