CVE-2026-6907

MEDIUM

Potential exposure of private data due to incorrect handling of Vary: * in UpdateCacheMiddleware

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.5 and 5.2 before 5.2.14. `django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware` erroneously caches requests where the `Vary` header contained an asterisk (`'*'`). This can lead to private data being stored and served. 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 Ahmad Sadeddin for reporting this issue.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list
Django releases announcements
https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
Django security archive
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
Django security releases issued: 6.0.5 and 5.2.14
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/may/05/security-releases/

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-524
Status published
Products (7)
djangoproject/Django 5.2 - 5.2.14
djangoproject/django 5.2 - 5.2.14
djangoproject/Django 5.2.14
djangoproject/Django 6.0 - 6.0.5
djangoproject/Django 6.0.5
pypi/Django 5.2 - 5.2.14PyPI
pypi/Django 6.0 - 6.0.5PyPI
Published May 05, 2026
Tracked Since May 05, 2026