CVE-2026-53878CWE-144

Header injection possibility since DomainNameValidator accepted newlines in input

Medium · published July 7, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
25.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in Django 6.0 before 6.0.7 and 5.2 before 5.2.16.

`DomainNameValidator` does not prohibit newlines in domain names (unless used via a form field, since `CharField` strips newlines). If an application uses values with newlines in an HTTP response, header injection can occur. Django itself is unaffected because `HttpResponse` prohibits newlines in HTTP headers.

Earlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected.

Django would like to thank Bence Nagy for reporting this issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
EPSS
0.00327 · 25.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-144 · Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters
Published
2026-07-07T14:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 JUL 14:10Z
    Header injection possibility since DomainNameValidator accepted newlines in input
    cvelistv5