CVE-2026-8404CWE-178

Potential exposure of private data via case-sensitive Cache-Control directives in UpdateCacheMiddleware

Low · published June 3, 2026

CVSS v4.0
2.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
36.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.15 and 6.0 before 6.0.6.

`django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware` in Django does not match `Cache-Control` response directives case-insensitively, which allows remote attackers to read responses that were incorrectly cached because their `Cache-Control` directives used uppercase or mixed-case values.

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 Ahmed Badawe for reporting this issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
2.3 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00429 · 36.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-178 · Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
Published
2026-06-03T13:16Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 JUN 13:16Z
    Potential exposure of private data via case-sensitive Cache-Control directives in UpdateCacheMiddleware
    cvelistv5