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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD2.3 Low

CVE-2026-8404

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

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

djangoproject Django

Default version status: unaffected

  • 6.0 to < 6.0.6affected
  • 6.0.6unaffected
  • 5.2 to < 5.2.15affected
  • 5.2.15unaffected

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