An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 6.0 before 6.0.8. GeoDjango's `django.contrib.gis.geos.GEOSGeometry` is subject to a potential denial-of-service when parsing deeply nested `GE…
Medium CVSS 5.3
Summary
An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 6.0 before 6.0.8. GeoDjango's `django.contrib.gis.geos.GEOSGeometry` is subject to a potential denial-of-service when parsing deeply nested `GEOMETRYCOLLECTION` objects supplied as well-known text (WKT), well-known binary (WKB), or hex-encoded WKB, which triggers unbounded recursion and a segmentation fault in the underlying GEOS library. Spatial field lookups and the `django.contrib.gis.forms.GeometryField` form field are also affected. E…
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Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/6af5da31775417c610dbf9c3f1b5b8333d42daf6
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/9e4a3f186b6b07b483bfd9195ea06734663fcd06
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/ba80833fa656dd09660b97c4429331067db1b080
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/d2e59b77fe18de318a8272c2a7bbc798d84d1d0d
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/04/security-releases/
Timeline
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