CVE-2025-59682

State: Published
Severity: 3.1 Low
Published: Oct 1, 2025
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
Reserved: Sep 18, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.25, 5.1 before 5.1.13, and 5.2 before 5.2.7. The django.utils.archive.extract() function, used by the "startapp --template" and "startproject --template" commands, allows partial directory traversal via an archive with file paths sharing a common prefix with the target directory.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	3.1 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Djangodjangoproject	4.2 to before 4.2.25Affected 5.1 to before 5.1.13Affected 5.2 to before 5.2.7Affected

References

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/oct/01/security-releases/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/01/3

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