Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting django package, versions [,5.2.15)[6.0a1,6.0.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-DJANGO-17151728
  • published4 Jun 2026
  • disclosed3 Jun 2026
  • creditPeng Zhou

Introduced: 3 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-6873  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade django to version 5.2.15, 6.0.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in the get_signed_cookie function. An attacker can access data intended for a different context by crafting distinct (name, salt) pairs that result in the same concatenated value.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1