Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity Affecting django package, versions [4.2a1,4.2.30)[5.0a1,5.2.13)[6.0a1,6.0.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.88% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-DJANGO-15923567
  • published7 Apr 2026
  • disclosed7 Apr 2026
  • creditSeokchan Yoon

Introduced: 7 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-33033  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-407  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Django to version 4.2.30, 5.2.13, 6.0.4 or higher.

Overview

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in the MultiPartParser when handling multipart uploads with Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 containing excessive whitespace. An attacker can cause significant resource consumption and degrade server performance by submitting specially crafted file uploads.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1