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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-114136 EUVD-2026-107546GHSA-3547-9m27-7rxg

Django REST framework: JSONParser applies an attacker-named codec to the request stream

Published Oct 21, 2026 · Updated Oct 30, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Django REST framework is a toolkit for building Web APIs. From 3.6.4 until 3.18.2, JSONParser.parse in rest_framework/parsers.py uses the client-supplied Content-Type charset value with codecs.getreader, which accepts byte-transform codecs such as bz2_codec rather than only text encodings. A remote unauthenticated client can therefore cause a compressed JSON request body to be expanded after Django has enforced DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE against only the wire bytes, allowing a very small request to consume substantial per-worker memory. The default parser set is sufficient, and any reachable endpoint that accepts a JSON body is affected. This issue is fixed in version 3.18.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
encode django-rest-framework >= 3.6.4, < 3.18.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 djangorestframework 3.18.3+ds1-1 —
Debian 13 djangorestframework No fix yet —
Debian 12 djangorestframework No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 djangorestframework No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS djangorestframework No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS djangorestframework No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS djangorestframework No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS djangorestframework No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS djangorestframework No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS djangorestframework No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-djangorestframework 3.18.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12277-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI djangorestframework >= 3.6.4, < 3.18.2 3.18.2 GHSA-3547-9m27-7rxg

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