{"id":"CVE-2025-64460","summary":"Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in XML serializer text extraction","details":"An issue was discovered in 5.2 before 5.2.9, 5.1 before 5.1.15, and 4.2 before 4.2.27.\nAlgorithmic complexity in `django.core.serializers.xml_serializer.getInnerText()` allows a remote attacker to cause a potential denial-of-service attack triggering CPU and memory exhaustion via specially crafted XML input processed by the XML `Deserializer`.\nEarlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected.\nDjango would like to thank Seokchan Yoon for reporting this issue.","aliases":["BIT-django-2025-64460","GHSA-vrcr-9hj9-jcg6","PYSEC-2025-109"],"modified":"2026-05-20T08:11:17.425954675Z","published":"2025-12-02T15:15:34.451Z","related":["CGA-5fhv-cqxj-x25r","SUSE-SU-2025:4384-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:15805-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:15806-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:20153-1","openSUSE-SU-2026:10005-1"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/64xxx/CVE-2025-64460.json","cwe_ids":["CWE-407"],"cna_assigner":"DSF"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/django/django/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/64xxx/CVE-2025-64460.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64460"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/dec/02/security-releases/"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/Django/"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/django/django","events":[{"introduced":"97aa3b7f08f51669e118f3af5ca91026e39664c3"},{"fixed":"5948e6657f8cb6aeaab1a5a45640d089230f461a"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-64460.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}