CVE-2025-13473

MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.04%

Django has Observable Timing Discrepancy

Published: 2/3/2026Modified: 5/20/2026
Also known as:GHSA-2mcm-79hx-8fxwBIT-django-2025-13473CGA-5wcc-7wx7-j93fPYSEC-2026-42

Description

An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.2, 5.2 before 5.2.11, and 4.2 before 4.2.28. The `django.contrib.auth.handlers.modwsgi.check_password()` function for authentication via `mod_wsgi` allows remote attackers to enumerate users via a timing attack. 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 Stackered for reporting this issue.

Affected packages (6)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References (8)