{"schema_version":"1.9.0","id":"BIT-django-2025-64460","published":"2025-12-11T11:37:12.400Z","modified":"2026-09-08T08:46:33.404476620Z","aliases":["CVE-2025-64460","GHSA-vrcr-9hj9-jcg6","PYSEC-2025-109"],"summary":"Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in XML serializer text extraction","details":"An issue was discovered in 5.2 before 5.2.9, 5.1 before 5.1.15, and 4.2 before 4.2.27.\nAlgorithmic complexity in `django.core.serializers.xml_serializer.getInnerText()` allows a remote attacker to cause a potential denial-of-service attack triggering CPU and memory exhaustion via specially crafted XML input processed by the XML `Deserializer`.\nEarlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected.\nDjango would like to thank Seokchan Yoon for reporting this issue.","affected":[{"package":{"name":"django","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/django"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"4.2.0"},{"fixed":"4.2.27"},{"introduced":"5.1.0"},{"fixed":"5.1.15"},{"introduced":"5.2.0"},{"fixed":"5.2.9"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/django/BIT-django-2025-64460.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/"},{"type":"DISCUSSION","url":"https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64460"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/dec/02/security-releases/"}],"database_specific":{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:djangoproject:django:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"severity":"High"}}