CVE-2026-73228CWE-400CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2026-73228

Medium · published August 11, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Django REST framework is a toolkit for building Web APIs. Prior to 3.17.2, Django REST Framework's request.data parsing in rest_framework/request.py Request._parse() passes the underlying HttpRequest stream to JSONParser and FormParser for application/json and application/x-www-form-urlencoded bodies, bypassing Django's DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE protection and allowing oversized request bodies to consume additional memory and CPU. This issue is fixed in version 3.17.2.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00557 · 45.7th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-08-11T23:18Z
References (5)
https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/commit/2912dc98042f78e27636551fc22eeaf10f725fdd · [email protected]https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/commit/82ef7b7e4e0a73ba5c489b465fae7e76d948da4e · [email protected]https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/10013 · [email protected]https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/security/advisories/GHSA-2m8g-3cmr-wg3w · [email protected]https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/security/advisories/GHSA-2m8g-3cmr-wg3w · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 AUG 18:54Z
    Django REST framework: Potential bypass of Django `DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE` when parsing oversized JSON and urlencoded request bodies via DRF `request.data`
    cvelistv5