Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information Affecting django package, versions [,5.2.16)[6.0a1,6.0.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-DJANGO-17881428
  • published7 Jul 2026
  • disclosed7 Jul 2026
  • creditChris Whyland

Introduced: 7 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-48588  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-524  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Django to version 5.2.16, 6.0.7 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 Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information in the UpdateCacheMiddleware and cache_page process when responses that vary on cookies are cached while the incoming request contains unrelated cookies. An attacker can access private data from the shared cache by making crafted requests that manipulate cookies.

CVSS Base Scores

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