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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-87975 EUVD-2026-93396GHSA-x869-hccf-fv7r

Privilege abuse in model formsets with editable primary keys

Published Oct 6, 2026 · Updated Oct 6, 2026 · Assigned by DSF

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 6.1 before 6.1.2, 6.0 before 6.0.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.18.
`django.forms.models.BaseModelFormSet.save_existing_objects()` used the presence of a primary key on a submitted form's instance as evidence that the instance belonged to the formset's limiting queryset. An object outside that queryset is represented by a newly constructed instance whose primary key can still be populated from submitted data when the model's primary key is a field accepted by the form, such as a `OneToOneField` or parent link used as the primary key of an inline formset's model, or a natural or UUID primary key included in the form's fields. This allows an authenticated user permitted to submit such a formset to delete rows outside the limiting queryset, without any permission on the targeted object, via forged management-form data marking an out-of-queryset object for deletion. Models using the default AutoField primary key are not affected.
Earlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.1.x, 5.0.x, and 4.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected.
Django would like to thank Seonggwon Yoon for reporting this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
djangoproject Django 6.1 – < 6.1.2, 6.0 – < 6.0.9, 5.2 – < 5.2.18 6.1.2

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 python-django 3:5.2.18-1 —
Debian 13 python-django No fix yet —
Debian 12 python-django 3:3.2.25-0+deb12u6 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 python-Django 4.2.11-150600.3.68.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4626-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-Django 6.1.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12103-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-Django4 4.2.30-6.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12086-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-Django5 5.2.18-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12095-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 python-Django 5.2.4-bp160.12.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:22196-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 py3-django 5.2.18-r0 —

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