An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.25, 5.1 before 5.1.13, and 5.2 before 5.2.7. The django.utils.archive.extract() function, used by the "startapp --template" and "startproject --template" commands, allows partial directory traversal via an archive with file paths sharing a common prefix with the target directory.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Djangoproject
  • Django

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References
Link Providers
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59682 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59682 cve-icon
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/oct/01/security-releases/ cve-icon cve-icon
History

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title django: Potential partial directory-traversal via archive.extract()
Weaknesses CWE-22
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 threat_severity

Important

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Djangoproject
Djangoproject django
Vendors & Products Djangoproject
Djangoproject django

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.25, 5.1 before 5.1.13, and 5.2 before 5.2.7. The django.utils.archive.extract() function, used by the "startapp --template" and "startproject --template" commands, allows partial directory traversal via an archive with file paths sharing a common prefix with the target directory.
Weaknesses CWE-23
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2025-10-01T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-10-01T19:10:39.951Z

Reserved: 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-59682

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-01T19:10:32.149Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-10-01T19:15:37.007

Modified: 2025-10-02T19:11:46.753

Link: CVE-2025-59682

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2025-10-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-59682 - Bugzilla