# CVE-2025-64459: Potential SQL injection via \_connector keyword argument in QuerySet and Q objects

- Also known as: GHSA-FRMV-PR5F-9MCR, BIT-DJANGO-2025-64459, PYSEC-2025-108
- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB, 10 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 5.2.8, 5.1.14, 4.2.26
- Published: 2025-11-05 · Updated: 2026-02-26

## Affected

- django: from 5.2, fixed in 5.2.8; from 5.1, fixed in 5.1.14; from 4.2, fixed in 4.2.26
- django (PyPI): from 5.2a1, fixed in 5.2.8
- django (PyPI): from 5.0a1, fixed in 5.1.14
- django (PyPI): fixed in 4.2.26
- django (PyPI): from 4.2, fixed in 4.2.26; from 5.1, fixed in 5.1.14; from 5.2, fixed in 5.2.8

## Description

An issue was discovered in 5.1 before 5.1.14, 4.2 before 4.2.26, and 5.2 before 5.2.8. The methods `QuerySet.filter()`, `QuerySet.exclude()`, and `QuerySet.get()`, and the class `Q()`, are subject to SQL injection when using a suitably crafted dictionary, with dictionary expansion, as the `_connector` argument. 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 cyberstan for reporting this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Django, upgrade to a fixed version (5.2.8, 5.1.14, 4.2.26) per the references below.
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## References

- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/05/security-releases/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52456
- https://github.com/0xCyberstan/CVE-2025-64459-Poc
- https://github.com/YouGina/CVE-2025-64459
- https://github.com/Z3YR0xX/CVE-2025-64459
- https://github.com/alxsourin/Helpdesk-Telecom-CVE-2025-64459
- https://github.com/joshualent/django-cve-2025-64459
- https://github.com/nunpa/CVE-2025-64459
- https://github.com/omarkurt/django-connector-CVE-2025-64459-testbed
- https://github.com/purehate/CVE-2025-64459-hunter
- https://github.com/rafaelchriss/RedTeamBrasil-CVE-2025-64459
- https://github.com/rockmelodies/django_sqli_target_CVE-2025-64459

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