Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Django - CVE-2026-77050

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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Django - CVE-2026-77050

Published: October 7, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU153882
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-77050
CWE-ID: CWE-770
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

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The vulnerability exists due to insufficient limits on memory consumption in django.utils.translation.get_supported_language_variant() when processing language codes that are cached before their length is limited. A remote attacker can supply many distinct, very long language codes to cause a denial of service.

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Affected software

Django

How to mitigate CVE-2026-77050

Install security update from vendor's website.

Django - addressed in versions 5.2.18, 6.0.9, 6.1.2

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