#VU118130 Resource exhaustion in Django - CVE-2025-64458
Published: November 5, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU118130
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-64458
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Django
Django
Software vendor:
Django Software Foundation
Django Software Foundation
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the HttpResponseRedirect, HttpResponsePermanentRedirect, and redirect methods are not optimized on Windows and consume too much system resources. A remote attacker can pass very large number of Unicode characters to the affected methods, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Note, the vulnerability affects Windows installations only.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.