{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2025-12-02T15:15:34Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "Django: Django: Algorithmic complexity in XML Deserializer leads to denial of service",
    "id" : "2418366",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418366"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-407",
  "details" : [ "An issue was discovered in 5.2 before 5.2.9, 5.1 before 5.1.15, and 4.2 before 4.2.27.\nAlgorithmic complexity in `django.core.serializers.xml_serializer.getInnerText()` allows a remote attacker to cause a potential denial-of-service attack triggering CPU and memory exhaustion via specially crafted XML input processed by the XML `Deserializer`.\nEarlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected.\nDjango would like to thank Seokchan Yoon for reporting this issue.", "A flaw was found in Django. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a potential denial-of-service (DoS) attack triggering Central Processing Unit (CPU) and memory exhaustion via specially crafted Extensible Markup Language (XML) input processed by the XML Deserializer." ],
  "statement" : "This vulnerability is rated Important for Red Hat products that process XML input using Django's XML Deserializer, including Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, and OpenShift Service Mesh. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw by providing specially crafted XML, leading to a denial-of-service due to CPU and memory exhaustion.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8",
    "release_date" : "2026-01-28T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1497",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8",
    "package" : "automation-controller-0:4.5.30-1.el8ap"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9",
    "release_date" : "2026-01-28T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1497",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9",
    "package" : "automation-controller-0:4.5.30-1.el9ap"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8",
    "release_date" : "2026-01-28T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1506",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8",
    "package" : "automation-controller-0:4.6.25-1.el8ap"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8",
    "release_date" : "2026-01-28T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1506",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8",
    "package" : "python3.11-django-0:4.2.27-1.el8ap"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9",
    "release_date" : "2026-01-28T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1506",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9",
    "package" : "automation-controller-0:4.6.25-1.el9ap"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9",
    "release_date" : "2026-01-28T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1506",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9",
    "package" : "python3.11-django-0:4.2.27-1.el9ap"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9",
    "release_date" : "2026-01-26T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1249",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9",
    "package" : "automation-controller-0:4.7.8-1.el9ap"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9",
    "release_date" : "2026-01-26T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1249",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9",
    "package" : "python3.11-django-0:4.2.27-2.el9ap"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4",
    "release_date" : "2026-01-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1599",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8",
    "package" : "ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8:sha256:58758bcab923ecfaedc3fd2fe3667ee79a50a205db3282360d29d7b3dd4617db"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5",
    "release_date" : "2026-01-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1609",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8",
    "package" : "ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8:sha256:1cf05b75a38787397c26a8a2d2977e3d85036dc47effe43654d0653a127f428a"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Discovery 2",
    "release_date" : "2026-01-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:0414",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:discovery:2::el9",
    "package" : "discovery/discovery-server-rhel9:sha256:75723049a444b5136e2d40920e2852f0840fecf60832a8bbb06e488fc9bba543"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "OpenShift Service Mesh 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "openshift-service-mesh/pilot-rhel8",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:service_mesh:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "OpenShift Service Mesh 3",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel9",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:service_mesh:3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ansible-automation-platform-24/de-minimal-rhel8",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ansible-automation-platform-24/de-minimal-rhel9",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel8",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel9",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ansible-automation-platform-26/de-minimal-rhel9",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rhosp13/openstack-horizon",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:13"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rhosp-rhel8/openstack-horizon",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:16.2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rhosp-rhel9/openstack-horizon",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:17.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rhoso/openstack-horizon-rhel9",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:18.0"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Satellite 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "satellite/iop-advisor-backend-rhel9",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-64460\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64460\nhttps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/\nhttps://groups.google.com/g/django-announce\nhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/dec/02/security-releases/" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2025-64460",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}