CVE-2026-15830

MEDIUM

Potential denial-of-service vulnerability via nested geometry collections

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 6.0 before 6.0.8. GeoDjango's `django.contrib.gis.geos.GEOSGeometry` is subject to a potential denial-of-service when parsing deeply nested `GEOMETRYCOLLECTION` objects supplied as well-known text (WKT), well-known binary (WKB), or hex-encoded WKB, which triggers unbounded recursion and a segmentation fault in the underlying GEOS library. Spatial field lookups and the `django.contrib.gis.forms.GeometryField` form field are also affected. Earlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.1.x, 5.0.x, and 4.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected. Django would like to thank Andrew MacPherson and kimchunbok_ for reporting this issue.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0052
EPSS Percentile 41.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (4)
djangoproject/Django 5.2 - 5.2.17
djangoproject/Django 5.2.17
djangoproject/Django 6.0 - 6.0.8
djangoproject/Django 6.0.8
Published Aug 04, 2026
Tracked Since Aug 04, 2026