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CVE-2026-6873PYSEC-2026-199BIT-DJANGO-2026-6873GHSA-H7PC-VWP9-298G

Signed cookie salt namespace collision in django.http.HttpRequest.get_signed_cookie

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.0.6, 5.2.15
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

An issue was discovered in Django 6.0 before 6.0.6 and 5.2 before 5.2.15. `django.http.HttpRequest.get_signed_cookie` in Django uses a non-injective salt derivation (concatenating the cookie name and salt argument), which allows a remote attacker to use a cookie in a context different from the one where it was signed, via distinct `(name, salt)` pairs that produce the same concatenation. 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 Peng Zhou for reporting this issue.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • django

    From 6.0 · fixed in 6.0.6; From 5.2 · fixed in 5.2.15

  • djangoPyPI

    From 5.2 · fixed in 5.2.15; From 6.0 · fixed in 6.0.6

  • djangoPyPI

    fixed in 5.2.15

  • djangoPyPI

    From 6.0.0 · fixed in 6.0.6

References 3

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djangoproject.com