GHSA-f6f8-9mx6-9mx2 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) CWE-130 vulnerability in django. EPSS puts its 30-day exploitation probability at 28.6% (98th percentile). A fix is available for django — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Django vulnerable to Denial of Service
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-f6f8-9mx6-9mx2.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-f6f8-9mx6-9mx2 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 378,156 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 10–50% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
django🐍djangoReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects PyPI packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
An issue was discovered in Django 5.0 before 5.0.7 and 4.2 before 4.2.14. get_supported_language_variant() was subject to a potential denial-of-service attack when used with very long strings containing specific characters.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | django | ≥ 5.0&&< 5.0.7 | 5.0.7pip install --upgrade 'django==5.0.7' |
| 🐍PyPI | django | ≥ 4.2&&< 4.2.14 | 4.2.14pip install --upgrade 'django==4.2.14' |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for django, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update django to 5.0.7 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-f6f8-9mx6-9mx2 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-f6f8-9mx6-9mx2 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-f6f8-9mx6-9mx2. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 | ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8:1.0.2-10 | RHBA-2024:6429 |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 | automation-controller-0:4.5.10-1.el8ap | RHSA-2024:6428 |
| Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift 18.0 | python-django-0:3.2.12-8.el9ost | RHSA-2024:9481 |
| Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8 | python-django-0:4.2.16-1.el8pc | RHSA-2024:8906 |
| RHUI 4 for RHEL 8 | python-django-0:4.2.15-1.el8ui | RHSA-2025:1335 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-f6f8-9mx6-9mx2 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-f6f8-9mx6-9mx2 across PyPI dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.